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Principal Software Engineer

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24

Core

Designing, developing, and maintaining a next-generation pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform that provides real-time actionable insights to drive cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Builds

A unified technology platform for pharmacy benefit administration and management

Domain

Health-Tech / Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Platform architecture, full-stack development, system design, CI/CD implementation, technical design documentation, codebase testing, scalable software design

Preferred skills

JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Golang, GraphQL, SQL, React, GORM, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate

Technologies

JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Golang, GraphQL, SQL, React, GORM, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate

Responsibilities

Designing and developing the SmithRx platform and its features; collaborating with stakeholders to build functional and technical requirements; providing scope and risk estimates for systems and feature builds; building and reinforcing software development best practices; evaluating and utilizing client and server-based frameworks; ensuring the codebase is fully tested

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with leadership and ownership

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## About the role 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: - Do the right thing. Especially when it's hard. - Embrace the challenge. - Build bridges and lift up your colleagues. ## Job Summary 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. As a Principal Software 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 across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. ## What will you do: - Focus on platform architecture; designing, developing and maintaining the SmithRx platform and its features using various languages such as JavaScript/Typescript, Node, Golang, GraphQL, and SQL (amongst others), while leveraging full CI and CD to iterate quickly - Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to build functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software and services - Provide scope and risk estimates for systems and feature builds by building technical design documentation - Continually build, improve, and reinforce software development best practices, design patterns, tools and technologies. - Evaluate and utilize client and server-based frameworks, like React, GraphQL, and GORM, when appropriate to extend the needs of our platform. - Leverage AWS technologies, like Lambda and Fargate, to handle various types of jobs and batch processing - Ensure that our codebase is fully test
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