Affordable Pharmacy Benefits, Powered by Modern Infrastructure.
Senior Backend Developer – Integrations
Location
United States
Posted
26 days ago
Salary
$150K - $180K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Developer – Integrations
Capital Rx
• Lead the development and deployment of cutting-edge solutions from design to production. • Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine and implement requirements, ensuring seamless integration and user experience. • Engage with major clients and cross-functional teams to architect innovative solutions and enhance product functionality. • Establish and maintain consistent, enterprise-grade APIs across services, ensuring interoperability and scalability while employing best practices for interactions with both partner and internal systems. • Build robust backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SMS, ECS, and other cloud technologies. • Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud-native environment (Flask/AWS Lambda/ECS). • Design and implement scalable systems capable of handling high-volume transactions, ensuring robustness and reliability. • Ensure security best practices are followed in all aspects of development and deployment. • Conduct code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards. • Demonstrate technical leadership, driving timely execution and high-quality software delivery. • Make informed architectural decisions through careful evaluation and leveraging prior experience. • Self-manage tasks, collaborate effectively with both internal and external teams, and drive projects to successful completion. • Represent the software development team’s products to stakeholders, providing technical insights and solutions.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills.
- Desire to work in a health technology company; previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience is a plus.
- Strong experience in Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React).
- Advanced PostgreSQL database knowledge, including common table expressions, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, and indexing techniques (full-text or geospatial).
- Experience working with microservices, an API-based application paradigm, and distributed caching techniques.
- Proven ability to deliver complex web applications to the cloud, targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform).
- Demonstrated ability to improve scalability and observability of systems.
- Proficiency in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js and similar tools.
- Experience with Git code management, preferably in a mono repository.
- Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms and integration testing using frameworks like Playwright.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration in a remote environment and with major clients' technical and non-technical teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues.
- Prior experience working as a technical lead collecting functional and non-functional requirements, or strong technical product management experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to lead high-impact, client-facing initiatives that directly influence key business metrics.
- Hands-on exposure to architecture, system design, and solving complex scalability challenges in real-world environments.
- Be a catalyst in accelerating client migration and new client onboarding with direct visibility into outcomes.
- Work on a team that values quick, elegant solutions to complex problems where your contributions shape the future of pharmacy benefits.
- We have a remote-first culture.
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