Senior Front End Engineer

The Engineering team at SmithRx is developing the next-generation modern pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform that will change how companies administer and manage pharmacy benefits. Our unified technology platform provides real-time actionable insights that drives cost savings, powers clinical services and results in a brilliant customer experience. A unified technology platform exists nowhere in the pharmacy benefit ecosystem to programmatically solve widespread deficiencies. The result is a PBM delivering unmatched service quality and operational efficiencies that exceeds all industry standards.

Job Summary

As a Senior Front End 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.

What will you do

• Focus on front-end architecture; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages such as JavaScript, React, Material UI, and GraphQL (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
• Provide scope and risk estimates for system and feature builds by building technical design documentation
• Continually apply software development best practices, design patterns, testing, automation, tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot production issues by performing triages for issues that arise, assessing the impact, creating and executing a plan for short-term and long-term mitigation, and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues.
• Coach/mentor junior team members in their assigned engineering projects by reviewing and providing feedback on code developed, and performing design and code reviews
• Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Be the cornerstone of a collaborative learning culture through mentorship, code reviews, the exploration of new technologies, and other innovations

What will you bring to SmithRx

• BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience
• 5-8 years of software development experience working on client-side applications
• Experience at a high-growth startup a plus
• Proficiency with frontend unit and integration testing frameworks, such as Cypress or Selenium required
• Expertise in JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS and various frontend frameworks required 
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing reusable and extensible client-side components.
• Working knowledge of CI and CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus
• Willingness to contribute to the backend codebase using GraphQL and Golang.
• Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity