Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

We are a 150+ person team funded by top-tier firms, based in Santa Monica, CA with satellite offices in San Francisco. We are a low-key but tight-knit group of hard-working people working to fix America's broken healthcare system. Americans spend over $400 billion per year on prescriptions and too many people simply can't afford the medications they desperately need. Join GoodRx and help us solve meaningful problems that help us make people's lives better every day.

About the Role

GoodRx is looking to bring on a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the development of our backend platform and services. You'll be in charge of designing and growing a robust and scalable platform.

Our engineers are involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle from the initial idea through prototyping and shipping the final product. It's important to us we create an environment where everyone feels comfortable to voice their thoughts and ideas. If this excites you, then come help us move the needle in American healthcare.

Responsibilities:

* Architect efficient and reusable back-end systems that drive complex web applications
* Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to deliver compelling products
* Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
* Focus on keeping our platform secure and compliant as we continue to grow
* Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services (and our patients).
* Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions

Skills & Qualifications:

* 3+ years of real product experience - you have shipped products used by hundreds of thousands or millions of users
* Experience with our tech stack - Node.js, Typescript, SQL, Docker, AWS
* You want to work on software that is changing the world and you're passionate (and obsessed) about creating intuitive, scalable products.
* Ability to work effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals - you may work closely with doctors and other non-technical folks to get things done. Collaboration is key
* You take pride in your ability to understand a problem space before designing solutions and will surface technical and product limitations earlier rather than later
* Familiarity with aspects of systems at scale - you can reason about OS, database, and distributed systems and are knowledgeable about the landscape of tools and technologies at your disposal
* The shell-fu is strong - you're comfortable working on remote machines and can diagnose performance issues and hard to reproduce bugs using tools like strace/dtrace/perf, and are comfortable writing ad-hoc shell scripts to aid in the process
* High degree of fluency in JavaScript - you are a strong coder and know how to write clean, effective code at scale (see the first two bullet points)
* You like moving fast but write tests, document procedures, and share context to constantly push platform quality and reliability up and to the right

Extra Credit:

* Experience with systems languages like C/C++/Go/Rust
* Experience with React/Redux, ES6, Webpack, Babel, and Jest (or similar tools)
* Experience with HIPAA, PCI, or other high security coding environments
* Experience with automatic building/deployment services like Jenkins, Fastlane etc.
* Open source contributions

About GoodRx

GoodRx is America's leading prescription price transparency platform. More than 8 million people use the GoodRx website and our mobile apps each month. GoodRx helps consumers save up to 80% on their medications by delivering prices and available discounts at nearly every pharmacy in the U.S. Thousands of physicians and employees use GoodRx, and its services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, the American Heart Association, The New York Times, ABC News, AARP, Forbes and many others.