Software Engineer

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: Always operate with honesty and transparency so we earn the trust of our clients.
• Courage: Demonstrate the courage needed to take on a broken industry and continuously improve what we offer to optimize health outcomes.
• Together: Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment that values teamwork, respect, and open communication, and encourages creativity and diversity of thought.

Job Summary:

The Engineering team at SmithRx is developing the next-generation modern pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform that will change how companies administer and manage pharmacy benefits. Our unified technology platform provides real-time actionable insights that drives cost savings, powers clinical services and results in a brilliant customer experience. A unified technology platform exists nowhere in the pharmacy benefit ecosystem to programmatically solve widespread deficiencies. The result is a PBM delivering unmatched service quality and operational efficiencies that exceeds all industry standards.

As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the entire engineering lifecycle from design/build/test to maintaining our SmithRx product suite. You will contribute to 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 across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

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 our back-end and front-end codebase; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages such as React, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, Golang, Java, 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
• Apply software development best practices, design patterns, tools and technologies.
• Leverage client and server-based frameworks, like React, GraphQL, and GORM, when appropriate to extend the needs of our platform.
• Leverage AWS technologies, like Lambda and Fargate, to handle various types of jobs and batch processing 
• Ensure that the code is fully tested end-to-end, has the desired level of code coverage, and that the features are well documented
• 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.
• Work with peers to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Contribute to 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
• 3-5 years experience of software development experience working on software applications (web or mobile).
• Experience at a high-growth startup a plus
• Positivity; non-dogmatic, team-first attitude
• Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity
• Solid experience working with a language such as Go, Java, C, or C++
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience designing and implementing scalable solutions; an understanding of design patterns, database design, and testing best practices.
• Disciplined approach to software design and development and ability to work on features independently (accurately forecast delivery milestones and work with stakeholders to ensure that expectations are met)
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, SQL tuning, and database monitoring
• Working knowledge of open source APIs, CI and CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus

What SmithRx Offers You: 

• 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