SmithRx
Health-Tech
SeniorStaffSoftwareEngineer,Platform
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“Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform at SmithRx. Skills: Back-end designing, Developing, Maintaining SmithRx product features, Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, GraphQL, SQL, CI, CD, AWS, Lambda, Fargate, Go, Java, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Leadership, Ownership qualities, Mentorship. Design, documentation, build, test and maintain our SmithRx product suite. Advocate and bring best practices/methodologies, coding standards and large-scale system design perspectives to our te”
What You'll Achieve.
Produce high-quality, scalable software and services; Prevent future occurrence of issues; Turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot production issues; Performing triages for issues; Assessing the impact; Creating and executing a plan for short-term and long-term mitigation; Performing root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience, 12-15 years of software development experience working on server-side applications, specifically around API servers, third party integrations and data processing, 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 a solid understanding of design patterns, database design, and testing best practices
Nice to Have
Experience at a high-growth startup a plus, Working knowledge of GraphQL APIs, CI and CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
test and maintain our SmithRx product suite
Advocate and bring best practices/methodologies
coding standards and large-scale system design perspectives to our team
Focus on back-end designing
developing and maintaining SmithRx product features
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
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
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads; Build bridges and lift up your colleagues; Collaborative learning culture; Team-first attitude
Communication Scope
Responsive
Process & Methodology
Provide scope and risk estimates for system and feature builds, Accurately forecast delivery milestones
Full Job Description
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: Do the right thing. Especially when it’s hard. Courage: Embrace the challenge. Together: Build bridges and lift up your colleagues. Job Summary: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the entire engineering lifecycle from design, documentation, build, test and maintain our SmithRx product suite. You will advocate and bring best practices/methodologies, coding standards and large-scale system design perspectives to our team. We need our engineers to be versatile and driven, display leadership and ownership qualities, and be enthusiastic to take on new challenges as we continue to push technology forward. 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
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