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Blink Health

Online prescription meds with telehealth

Senior Software Engineer 2

Full-Stack EngineeringUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeIndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six to nine years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
  • Own ambiguous requirements end to end, from design through release and production.
  • Design full-stack systems across user interfaces, application programming interfaces, backend services, and databases.
  • Use Python and JavaScript or TypeScript to write clean, well-tested code in large codebases.
  • Work with distributed systems, including APIs, asynchronous messaging, integrations, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
  • Design schemas, indexes, queries, and safe migrations for relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  • Deploy, scale, and operate production applications on AWS or an equivalent cloud platform, using Kubernetes.
  • Debug production issues; perform incident triage and root-cause fixes; use continuous integration and delivery, feature flags, and phased rollouts for safe delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership through design decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and stakeholder alignment without formal authority.
  • Make pragmatic product trade-offs tied to customer and business outcomes.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar, and validate and take ownership of their output.

Responsibilities

  • Design new APIs to power product features.
  • Fix performance problems and debug production issues.
  • Perform peer code and architecture reviews.
  • Build features, write unit tests, and lead their release to production.
  • Develop and A/B test ReactJS components to improve user experience.
  • Design, build, deploy, and use AI/ML solutions for telemedicine triage, prescription guidance, fraud detection, personalization, and operational automation.
  • Help the team ship products and features by providing skills, mentorship, and organizational resources.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop engineers toward individual goals while fostering cross-functional collaboration and product success.
  • Take responsibility for the long-term success of product projects and people.
  • Champion responsible AI adoption across engineering and product teams, ensuring solutions are ethical, reliable, and scalable.
  • Stay current with AI/ML advances, including large language models, natural language processing, recommendation systems, and predictive analytics, and apply them thoughtfully to products.
  • Demonstrate curiosity, learn new techniques, and improve practices to stay current with emerging trends.
  • Lead by example by putting new ideas into action, learning from each experience, and iterating.
  • Listen actively and respond effectively through a variety of channels.
  • Give and receive candid, constructive feedback.
  • Promote trust and teamwork so the product team can perform effectively.

Desired Qualifications

  • Production integrations with large language models or agents, including retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, tool calling, or the Model Context Protocol, with evaluation and guardrails.
  • Experience with Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL or MySQL, and Linux.
  • Experience with Terraform, Kafka or Kinesis, and Airflow or Camunda.
  • Experience extracting services, conducting data migrations, or working on systems where correctness and auditability are critical.
  • Healthcare, pharmacy, fintech, or commerce domain experience.

About the Company

Blink Health

Online prescription meds with telehealth

Blink Health provides affordable access to prescription medications through an online platform that combines price comparisons with insurance, copay, and deductible information, and connects users with licensed medical professionals for online doctor visits. Patients can obtain prescriptions delivered to their door or ready for pickup at over 35,000 pharmacies nationwide. The product workflow starts with signing up, reviewing price estimates that reflect insurance details, consulting a doctor via telehealth if needed, and then having the medication filled and shipped or held for pickup. The company differentiates itself by offering savings through a large pharmacy network and insurance-aligned pricing, plus integrated telehealth and direct-to-consumer medication delivery. Its goal is to lower out-of-pocket costs and improve access to prescription medications for individuals through a seamless, tech-enabled experience.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Series D
Total funding
$306M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2014

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