smithrx

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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At a Glance

Location
Remote
Work Regime
remote
Experience
5–8 years
Posted
2026-04-29T18:11:02-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSDockerGoJavaJavaScriptKotlinKubernetesPostgreSQLSQLTypeScript

Domain Knowledge

  • Automation
  • Engineering
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Medical

Compensation & Benefits

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

Paid Company Holidays

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the entire engineering lifecycle from design, documentation, build, test and maintain our SmithRx product suite.

You will advocate and bring 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 as we continue to push technology forward.

Focus on back-end architecture; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages such as Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, 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

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

About the Company

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:

Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.

Courage:

We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.