Principal Software Engineer

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Princeton, NJ
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer at RxSense will act as a technical lead and developer, focusing on architectural and design aspects of a core platform product. The role entails collaborating with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions, mentoring junior engineers, managing technical debt, and enhancing code quality.
Summary Generated by Built In

RxSense is a high-growth healthtech company empowering clients and consumers with technology to access lower cost prescription drugs. Its transformative cloud-based enterprise platform enables clients to take control of their pharmacy benefits with fast, flexible and customizable solutions and real time data insights to improve operational and financial performance -- and ultimately deliver better care to patients nationwide. RxSense also owns and operates SingleCare, a free prescription savings service that offers consumers access to consistently low prices on prescription drugs. Through its partnerships with the country’s largest pharmacies and grocers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons, SingleCare improves access and adherence to more affordable medications and has helped millions of Americans collectively save over $8 billion on their medications.

RxSense is a great place to work! Our company has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Top Startup Employers, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, and Inc’s Best in Business and Best Workplaces.


Position Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer will serve as the technical lead, hands-on developer and an individual contributor with an architectural and technical design mindset for a core piece of our platform product. This position will be part of a cross-functional, largely autonomous product engineering team, collaborating with other engineers, designers and the product managers to scale our cloud-based web platform. The individual in this position will be required to guide and mentor other less experienced engineers on both their team and across our company. Accountable for the design, architecture, quality, and measurability of the systems.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Identify, conceive, and deliver without supervision, with complete latitude for independent judgment.
  • Partner with engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and leverage most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those needs.
  • Build infrastructure to handle millions of transactions and secure, sensitive health data.
  • Design and architect software capable of reaching millions of users.
  • Write modular, secure, and well-tested code.
  • Ensure our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams.
  • Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision.
  • Mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as and when needed.
  • Take product operational responsibility set measurable goals and meet them.
  • Manage technical debt, ensure code quality, and participate in code reviews.
  • Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability.
  • Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team and look opportunities to improve them.



Education and Experiences:

  • BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience.
  • 10+ years of work-related industry experience developing high-performance web applications in C#/.NET.
  • Experience architecting and developing distributed systems design.
  • Experience writing RESTful microservices with a popular web framework.
  • Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning
  • Experience and familiarity with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, DocumentDB strongly desired.
  • Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example, with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, WebAPI, IIS etc.
  • Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience
  • Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with a user mindset.
  • A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
  • Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway or with a different cloud provider and similar services.
  • Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities.
  • Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion.
  • Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model.
  • Proven analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
    • Experience with specific technologies such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
    • Experience migrating monolithic architecture to micro services architecture.

Nice to have:

  • Good working knowledge of message queuing systems and API design.
  • Experience as a full stack engineer and knowledge of Front-End languages such as React, Vue, Angular.

Salary Range- $160,000 - $180,000



RxSense believes that a diverse workforce is a more talented and productive workforce. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our recruitment process is free from discriminatory hiring practices and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin.  Neither will qualified applicants be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.  We believe in the strength of the collaboration, creativity and sense of community a diverse workforce brings. 

Top Skills

C#,.Net
The Company
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
280 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

RxSense (www.rxsense.com) is a high growth and mission-driven healthcare technology company that provides sophisticated cloud-based enterprise solutions for flexible, efficient, and transparent pharmacy benefits administration, claims processing and advanced analytics serving pharmacy benefit managers, health plans, health systems, as well as new and non-traditional industry entrants. RxSense also utilizes its advanced platform and direct contracts with the nation's largest pharmacies (including CVS, Walmart and Walgreens) to deliver consistently low prices direct to consumers on prescription drugs through its SingleCare (www.singlecare.com)prescription savings services. RxSense's mission is to deliver industry leading technology solutions that improve healthcare transparency and access to more affordable medications for millions across America.

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