Lead Software Engineer

GoodRx is America's healthcare marketplace. Each month, millions of people visit goodrx.com to find reliable health information and discounts for their healthcare - and we've helped people save $60 billion since 2011. We provide prescription discounts that are accepted at more than 70,000 pharmacies in the U.S., as well as telehealth services including doctor visits and lab tests. Our services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, The New York Times, NBC News, AARP, and many others.

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

GoodRx is looking for a fast learning, passionate lead backend engineer to be part of our Brand Drug Solutions engineering team. Our mission is to empower long-term patient access to the best treatment through smart, simple and transparent solutions. We build products and processes that ensure GoodRx is the go-to place for brand drug patients to find care, and for our pharma partners to reach patients in need.

You will be responsible for development and maintenance of processes, backend services and APIs that power our manufacturer sponsored products within GoodRx. In this role you will be involved in the design, implementation, deployment and operations of new or existing products, services and APIs needed to support new functionality. You'll also be collaborating with other engineering teams within GoodRx.

The ideal candidate will be able to quickly turn ideas from inception to final product in a fast-paced and friendly environment. You should be comfortable learning new technologies as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Drive projects with autonomy by collaborating with teams across the organization including product managers, designers, platform, devops, data, product and analytics to think beyond the technical implications of your design decisions

• Write clean, fast, compatible, easy-to-use, and testable code to turn ideas into production quality products.

• Maintain an understanding of the business requirements and work closely with stakeholders to understand what they need and why.

• Lead the architectural evolution of Brand Drug Systems, across squads.

• Make smart engineering and product decisions based on data analysis and collaboration.

• Mentor and be mentored by other engineers by leading and collaborating in all engineering discussions and evangelizing engineering best practices.

• 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

• Collaborate, learn, and grow

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of professional experience working as an engineer

• 5+ years of lead in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction

• Ability to deal with ambiguous and complex project requirements, and collaborate to design effective and efficient solutions.

• 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#) Familiarity with front end and internal UI technologies (ReTool, Salesforce Communities, HTML, CSS, etc.)

• Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies

• Effective verbal and written communicator

• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Cloudwatch, Sentry, etc.)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative degree

Preferred Skills:

• Experience building gRPC APIs in Go

• Experience with AWS technologies including RDS, Lambda, S3

• Experience in React or GraphQL

• Experience with containers, Docker, and Kubernetes

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, 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 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 telehealth 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.