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Sr. Software Engineer

GoodRx
CA HQ, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 May 2026
💰 $257,000/yr($121,000/yr$257,000/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.

Responsibilities:

  • Actively contribute to a high-performing engineering team through collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge sharing 

  • Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant services

  • Own the quality and reliability of services through improvements in code, testing strategy, observability, and operational excellence 

  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions, proactively identifying trade-offs, risks, and opportunities 

  • Make informed technical decisions by leveraging data, system insights, and cross-functional input 

  • Contribute to and help evolve engineering standards, best practices, and team processes 

  • Leverage AI-assisted tooling (e.g., for code, testing, and observability) to ship changes safely and efficiently while maintaining high engineering standards

  • Operate with an agile, iterative mindset, driving continuous improvement in both systems and team practices 

  • Serve as a subject matter expert within your team, and contribute expertise across teams when needed 

  • Own delivery of moderately complex projects end-to-end, from design through production support 

  • Participate in system design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions within your domain 


Required Skills:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering 

  • Significant experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud-based web services and microservices (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

  • Extensive experience with multiple programming languages (Go, Java, python, C#, Rust, etc.)

  • Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies

  • Proven debugging/troubleshooting skills

  • Strong understanding of component-level and application-level design patterns and their practical application 

  • Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements

  • Effective verbal and written communicator

  • Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Cloudwatch, Sentry, etc.)

  • Experience with different testing practices

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative degree


Preferred Skills:

  • Preferred languages - Go and Python

  • Experience with data ingestion pipelines such as Airflow, Luigi, AWS Step functions

  • Experience with containers and container orchestrators like Docker, Kubernetes, AKS

  • Hands on exposure with serverless technologies (Lambdas)

  • Knowledge of front end development (React) is beneficial

  • Comfort evaluating AI/ML solutions pragmatically—balancing impact, risk, and long-term maintainability, and applying them where appropriate 

  • Experience with agile methodologies and rapid iteration cycles

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 successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and other r

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