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Manager, Software Engineering

GoodRx
CA HQ, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Apr 2025
💰 $361,000/yr($169,000/yr$361,000/yr)

About the role

GoodRx is the leading prescription savings platform in the U.S. Trusted by more than 25 million consumers and 750,000 healthcare professionals annually, GoodRx provides access to savings and affordability options for generic and brand-name medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, as well as comprehensive healthcare research and information. Since 2011, GoodRx has helped consumers save nearly $75 billion on the cost of their prescriptions.

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for helping team members with the technical aspects of their jobs and be the point of escalation for any technical challenges and help troubleshoot any problems that may arise.  Apart from being hands-on with coding, you will also be responsible for driving end-to-end architectural design while maintaining alignment to deliver well rounded solutions along with promoting best practices and coding standards.  You will also be coordinating with team members in daily or weekly forums ensuring the right work is being prioritized that aligns with business growth and deadlines.

Responsibilities:

  • Leads and directs the work of others.

  • Owns strategy and implementation of products that deliver against team-owned business KPIs.

  • Responsible for key system design, integration decisions and for communicating decisions to individuals implementing the system.

  • Able to materially improve performance and quality of team output.

  • Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).

  • Hire, train and supervise engineering staff members.

  • Work closely with others across teams and disciplines to ensure quality and reliability of services.

  • Work with the team and other cross-functional leaders to define roadmap and vision.

  • Use business knowledge to guide team technical decisions.

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Minimum education required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

  • Minimum required experience: 5+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a management or technical leadership role.

  • Seasoned and experienced manager who successfully leads a single function team. 

  • Effective hiring, retaining, and developing software engineers.

  • Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop several teams local and remote.

  • Demonstrable knowledge of application design, development, monitoring and operating critical domains and infrastructure reliably.

  • Experience developing full stack web applications with modern frameworks and technologies such as React, Next.js, GraphQL and micro services architectures.

  • Experience with automatic building/deployment services like Jenkins, AWS, CodeFresh, GCP, etc.

  • Experience with APM and visual performance monitoring (DataDog, SpeedCurve or others)

  • Experience with A/B testing platforms (Optimizely, Split, etc)

  • Experience with Content Delivery Network (Cloudflare, Fastly or others)

  • Integrating with different analytics/events-based systems like Segment, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, etc.

  • Experience with using RESTful APIs (Protocol Buffers, etc)

  • Experience working in an agile development environment.

  • Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and engineering teams on track.

  • Self-motivated with ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment.

  • Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience. 

  • Experience with identity management platforms is preferred.

Nice to Have:

  • Healthcare and/or pharmacy experience is a plus.

Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general GoodRx best practices, such as reading and adhering to the security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.

At GoodRx, pay ranges are determined based on work locations and may vary based on where the successful candidate is hired. The pay ranges below are shown as a guideline, and the successfu

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