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Alto Pharmacy

Same-day digital pharmacy with pharmacist consultations

Senior Software Engineer

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • At least 10 years of progressive software engineering experience in a high-volume, high-throughput production environment.
  • A deep background in backend or full-stack technologies, working in modern environments such as Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/JavaScript, and PostgreSQL.
  • Expertise in architecting complex systems for long-term maintainability, performance, and scalability.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and experience building high-volume, resilient systems.
  • A proven track record of technical best practices, including code style, documentation, code review, bug fixing, and production issue mitigation.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
  • The role requires the ability to work at a computer terminal with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for extended periods; stoop, bend, and reach for equipment and supplies; make frequent repetitive motions involving the wrists, hands, and fingers; lift, carry, push, pull, and move light objects up to 20 pounds; communicate verbally; discern auditory information; and visually perceive details needed for essential job functions.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare prescriptions for fulfillment and delivery quickly and accurately through automation and efficient manual task coordination when third-party input is required.
  • Enable partners such as drug manufacturers, insurers, and individual providers to configure billing, benefits, and clinical workflows for their use cases.
  • Improve prescription intake automation by using large language models to parse unstructured prescription data.
  • Integrate controlled-substance dispensing history and risk scores into pre-dispense clinical safety and review workflows to accelerate pharmacist workflows.
  • Optimize drug selection to find patients the best price.
  • Balance low inventory on hand with high availability.
  • Establish the foundations for an extensible inventory management platform to support business growth.
  • Mentor other engineers and encourage best practices in software development and design.
  • Solve technical problems at the intersection of healthcare and e-commerce.
  • Provide technical thought leadership on building predictive systems.
  • Own critical platform services for prescription intake and processing through transmission of orders to pharmacies for fulfillment.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with supply chain optimization systems.
  • Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/JavaScript, and PostgreSQL; Python experience is also highly valued for machine-learning initiatives.
  • Experience building and integrating predictive machine-learning models.
  • Experience designing and implementing service-oriented architectures.

About the Company

Alto Pharmacy

Same-day digital pharmacy with pharmacist consultations

Alto Pharmacy is a digital pharmacy offering same-day home delivery of medications, with pharmacist consultations through the Alto app. It generates revenue from selling medications and pharmacy products, and it actively searches for coupons to lower prices. It joined Team Cuban Card pharmacy network to expand reach. Its goal is to provide convenient, affordable access to medications with professional guidance for busy people and those on long-term therapies.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$683.1M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2015

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