Senior Software Engineer, Platform

🕒 April 29

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SmithRx

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $20M Series B on 2022-03

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS • B2B

SmithRx is a transparent, pass-through pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) that operates independently from insurance companies and pharmacies to align its incentives with self-insured employers and their members. By leveraging modern technology, SmithRx aims to reduce the cost and complexity of pharmacy benefits, ensuring the delivery of effective and low-cost drugs. The company is dedicated to transforming the pharmacy benefits landscape through its flat-rate, transparent pricing model and innovative cost savings programs, which connect members to the lowest cost drugs without the use of spread pricing, rebates, or other tactics. SmithRx's commitment to transparency and superior customer service results in significant savings for employers and a highly satisfactory experience for its members.

📋 Description

• Focus on back-end architecture; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages such as Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, GraphQL, and SQL (amongst others), while leveraging full CI and CD to iterate quickly • Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to understand functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software and services • Provide scope and risk estimates for system and feature builds by building technical design documentation • Continually apply software development best practices, design patterns, testing, automation, tools and technologies. • Leverage AWS technologies, like Lambda and Fargate, to handle various types of jobs and batch processing • Troubleshoot production issues by performing triages for issues that arise, assessing the impact, creating and executing a plan for short-term and long-term mitigation, and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues. • Coach/mentor junior team members in their assigned engineering projects by reviewing and providing feedback on code developed, and performing design and code reviews • Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter • Be the cornerstone of a collaborative learning culture through mentorship, code reviews, the exploration of new technologies, and other innovations

🎯 Requirements

• BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience • 5-8 years of software development experience working on server-side applications, specifically around API servers, third party integrations and data processing • Experience at a high-growth startup a plus • Expertise in a compiled language such as Go, Java or Kotlin is required • Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, SQL tuning, and database monitoring is required • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable APIs; a solid understanding of design patterns, database design, and testing best practices. • Working knowledge of GraphQL APIs, CI and CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus • Positivity; non-dogmatic, team-first attitude • Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity • Highly disciplined approach to software design and development and ability to work on features independently (accurately forecast delivery milestones and work with stakeholders to ensure that expectations are met)

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance • Flexible Spending Benefits • 401(k) Retirement Savings Program • Short-term and long-term disability • Discretionary Paid Time Off • Paid Company Holidays • Wellness Benefits • Commuter Benefits • Paid Parental Leave benefits • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Well-stocked kitchen in office locations • Professional development and training opportunities