Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Applications)

Who We Are:

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company.  Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.  With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

• Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
• Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
• Together: The success of SmithRx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team. Our shared values bind us together and make us one. When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will play a key role in all stages of the engineering lifecycle—designing, building, testing, and maintaining the SmithRx product suite.  You will champion best practices, coding standards, and large-scale system design while bringing a forward-thinking mindset to the team. We are looking for versatile, self-driven engineers who demonstrate leadership, ownership, and a passion for tackling new challenges.

This role is part of the Member and Partner Portal team within the Application Engineering organization, which owns and operates the customer-facing experiences.  Success in this position requires a deep understanding of our systems, the ability to independently design interfaces and APIs, and close collaboration with frontend engineers and Product Managers to define features and requirements. Beyond coding and design, you will also contribute to initiatives that enhance the availability, performance, and scalability of our services.

In order to be eligible for this position applicants must be based in one of the following states: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

What you will do:

• 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

What you will bring to SmithRx:

• BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience
• 8+ years required, or 5+ years with an advanced degree 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, C, or C++ is required
• Proficiency with relational databas