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: Do the right thing. Especially when it’s hard.
- Courage: Embrace the challenge.
- Together: Build bridges and lift up your colleagues.
Job Summary:
As a Senior Front-End Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the entire software development lifecycle from FE design, build, test and maintain our SmithRx web product suite. You will work with Product and other stakeholders (Business, Backend, UX, etc) and bridge the gap between UI/UX design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works. You will advocate and bring best practices/methodologies, coding standards and large-scale web 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.
What you will do:
- Taking the lead on designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx frontend features with a strong depth of knowledge in JavaScript, React, and GraphQL while leveraging CI/CD to iterate quickly
- Build and maintain design libraries within SmithRx in collaboration with UX designers and other FE engineers
- Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to understand functional and technical feasibility of UI/UX designs to produce high-quality, performant, decoupled, and scalable code
- Continually apply software development best practices, design patterns, tools and technologies
- Troubleshoot production issues by performing triages for issues that arise and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues.
- Coach/mentor junior team members in their assigned engineering projects by performing design and code reviews
- Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap
- Be the cornerstone of a collaborative learning culture through knowledge sharing, mentorship, code reviews, and exploration of new frameworks and paradigms
What you will bring to SmithRx:
- BS or advanced degree in computer science
- 5-8+ years of software development experience working on client-side applications
- Expertise in JavaScript, React, GraphQL, HTML, CSS and various front-end frameworks
- Proven experience in client-side software design, implementing reusable components, and ability to work on features independently
- Successful history of leveraging AI for development
- Experience using Git in a professional environment
- Experience in writing automated tests using testing frameworks such as Cypress or Selenium
- Some industry experience with CI/CD pipeline, Docker, and a common cloud service provider
- Understanding of typical web application, SOA and micro services patterns a plus
- Experience at a high-growth startup 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 Company Holidays
- Wellness Benefits
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
- Professional development and training opportunities
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