Lead Software Engineer | Back End

GoodRx is the leading prescription savings platform in the U.S. Trusted by more than 25 million consumers and 750,000 healthcare professionals annually, GoodRx provides access to savings and affordability options for generic and brand-name medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, as well as comprehensive healthcare research and information. Since 2011, GoodRx has helped consumers save nearly $75 billion on the cost of their prescriptions.

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

About The Role

As a Lead Engineer on the Healthcare Professionals team at GoodRx, you will be responsible for development and maintenance of tools, backend services and APIs that power a tailored experience for healthcare professionals who use GoodRx to help their patients. As Lead Engineer you will have the latitude to define the team’s technical direction and develop processes to support new product functionality. You will work as part of a cross-functional squad of product management, designers, data analysts and other software engineers. You will also collaborate with other engineering, business operations, and marketing teams across GoodRx.

Responsibilities

• Be a team player, collaborate, and learn from those around you.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and performant services
• Continually improve the codebase and test coverage through refactoring, unit testing, system testing, automating deployment and operations
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Maintain an understanding of the business requirements and work closely with stakeholders to understand what they need and why
• Make smart engineering and product decisions based on data analysis and collaboration
• Collaborate across teams to develop shared services and best practices
  
  

Required Skills

• 8 years of professional experience working as an engineer
• Experience in a technical lead role leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Significant experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud-based web services and microservices (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Extensive experience with multiple programming languages (Go, Java, Python, C#)
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies
• Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements
• Effective verbal and written communicator
• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Cloudwatch, Sentry, etc…)
• Familiarity with security and privacy best practices
• Familiarity with front end and internal UI technologies (ReTool, Salesforce Communities, HTML, CSS, etc.)
  
  

Preferred Skills

• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional and/or cross-business projects
• Healthcare, pharmacy, PBM, NCPDP transactions experience
• Experience in GoLang, Web Services, API Development
• Experience in GraphQL
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines such as Airflow, AWS Step functions
• Experience with containers and container orchestrators like Docker, Kubernetes
• Hands on exposure with serverless technologies (Lambdas)
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  
  

Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general GoodRx best practices, such as reading and adhering to the security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.

At GoodRx, pay ranges are determined based on work locations and may vary based on where the successful candidate is hired. The pay ranges below are shown as a guideline, and the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant business and organizational factors. These pay zones may be modified in the future. Please contact your recruiter for additional information.

San Francisco And Seattle Offices

$180,000.00 - $288,000.00

New York Office

$165,000.00 - $264,000.00

Santa Monica Office

$150,000.00 - $240,000.00

Other Office Locations:

$135,000.00 - $216,000.00

GoodRx also offers additional compensation programs such as annual cash bonuses and annual equity grants for most positions as well as generous benefits. Our great benefits offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with a company match, an ESPP, unlimited vacation, 13 paid holidays, and 72 hours of sick leave. GoodRx also offers additional benefits like mental wellness and financial wellness programs, fertility benefits, generous parental leave, pet insurance, supplemental life insurance for you and your dependents, company-paid short-term and long-term disability, and more!

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.

With that said, research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. GoodRx is committed to leveling the playing field, and we encourage women, people of color, those in the LGBTQ communities, individuals with disabilities, and Veterans to apply for positions even if they don’t necessarily check every box outlined in the job description. Please still get in touch - we’d love to connect and see if you could be good for the role!

GoodRx is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to us at accommodations@goodrx.com.

GoodRx is America's healthcare marketplace. The company offers the most comprehensive and accurate resource for affordable prescription medications in the U.S., gathering pricing information from thousands of pharmacies coast to coast, as well as a tele-health marketplace for online doctor visits and lab tests. Since 2011, Americans with and without health insurance have saved $60 billion using GoodRx and million consumers visit goodrx.com each month to find discounts and information related to their healthcare. GoodRx is the #1 most downloaded medical app on the iOS and Android app stores. For more information, visit www.goodrx.com.