Senior Backend Software Engineer

2 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States SmithRx Full time
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our Member and Partner Portal team within the Application Engineering organization. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining the SmithRx product suite.

About SmithRx

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company dedicated to disrupting the Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector. Our mission is to build a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting-edge technology, innovative cost-saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.

Job Summary

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for championing best practices, coding standards, and large-scale system design while bringing a forward-thinking mindset to the team. You will collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to understand functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software and services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop high-quality, scalable software and services using various languages such as Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, GraphQL, and SQL.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to understand functional and technical requirements.
  • 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.
Requirements
  • 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.
  • Expertise in a compiled language such as Go, C, or C++ 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.
What We Offer
  • 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.
  • 12 Paid Holidays.
  • Wellness Benefits.
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • Paid Parental Leave benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Well-stocked kitchen in office locations.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.


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