Software Engineer

About the Role

You are an engineer who, above all, is excited to build products that give our customers the best possible experience purchasing prescription medications. You have professional experience working on a team turning ideas into reliable, maintainable code — and ideally, you are eager to apply AI and machine learning to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and personalized.

We believe in using a small number of well-known tools like AWS, Python, Javascript, MySQL/Postgres, and Linux. We are looking for engineers who value simplicity, pragmatism, and a bias toward action, and who are passionate about building products that bring real value to our customers.

Software Engineers at Blink are responsible for building our world-class products. Your job is to take ownership over one of our hardest problems, envision and refine strategic solutions, and drive execution like an entrepreneur.

You will collaborate closely with a talented, cross-functional team of designers, product managers, data scientists, marketers, and operators. Through these partnerships, you’ll grow our business, build our core platform, and—above all—make sure that our customers have access to the least expensive and highest satisfaction pharmacy experience on earth.

At Blink, we determine the specific focus of engineering roles through the interview process. Key potential areas of ownership include:

• Our telemedicine platform
• Our home delivery experience
• Our growth & personalization systems
• Our core pharmacy platform
• New product line development
• AI/ML-powered patient support, Order workflow automations using agentic AI, personalization, and automation

We’ll work with you to find the right fit.

How to Achieve Success / Acumen

All Blinkers are expected to operate with our value of “Good Giving” in mind. Our culture is infused with the dedication and enthusiasm of employees who continuously strive to make a difference. Here’s how you will do that in this role:

Good Execution — Do your best work

• Design and build new APIs to power innovative features
• Fix performance problems and debug production issues
• Perform peer code and architecture reviews
• Build new features, write unit tests, and lead the release of these features to production
• Develop and A/B test new ReactJS components to improve our user experience
• Apply AI/ML techniques to optimize search, recommendations, pricing, telehealth workflows, and operational efficiency

Good Owner — Be the CEO of your role

• Help the team ship new products and features successfully with the right skills, mentorship, and organizational resources to deliver amazing experiences for our patients
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers to reach individual goals while fostering cross-functional collaboration and product success
• Take responsibility for the long-term success of product projects and people
• Drive adoption of AI tools and frameworks across engineering and product teams

Good Learning — Learn something new every day

• Demonstrate curiosity and an interest in learning new techniques and improving upon best practices to stay up-to-date with current and emerging trends
• Lead by example: put new ideas into action, fail fast, and learn from each experience
• Experiment with cutting-edge AI/ML models, including LLMs, to enhance workflows and customer experience

Good Feedback — Consider the perspective of others

• Listen actively and respond effectively through a variety of channels
• Give and receive candid and constructive feedback
• Promote trust and encourage teamwork to allow the product team to do their best work
  
  

Desired Experience

• 2+ years in a software engineering role
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment: we believe a team can be stronger than its individual parts
• Independent, curious, and comfortable owning features from design through delivery to production
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
• Willingness to dive into a large code base and contribute immediately
• Enjoy writing code that is understandable, maintainable, and testable
• Collaborative and communicative — you love being part of a diverse team, building consensus, and establishing credibility. You are a Class-A communicator: curious, thoughtful, clear, and (mostly) correct.
• BA/BS degree from a top institution; MBA or CompSci degree preferred but not required
  
  

AI-Preferred Skills

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., MCP servers, n8n, Google ADK, Vector DBs and Langchain)
• Familiarity with LLMs, Fine tuning,  and generative AI for personalization and patient support and order workflow
• Experience integrating AI into production-grade systems with measurable business impact
• Interest in applying AI responsibly in healthcare to maximize patient value and trust