Location: Remote (For Non-Local) or Hybrid (Local to NYC area)

Position Summary:

Join our mission to transform pharmacy benefits. In this development role, you will lead large, high-impact projects, working closely with product managers, designers, and clients to gather both business and technical requirements with a product mindset. You will be at the forefront of technical solutioning, driving enterprise API integrations, data migrations, data exchange, and prioritizing security. This role involves extensive client interactions, API development, and ensuring scalability. You will collaborate cross-functionally across internal teams and various departments within our client organizations to accelerate program technical deliveries. This is an exciting opportunity to redefine the pharmacy benefits landscape through collaboration and cutting-edge cloud technology.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and deployment of cutting-edge solutions from design to production.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine and implement requirements, ensuring seamless integration and user experience.
• Engage with major clients and cross-functional teams to architect innovative solutions and enhance product functionality.
• Establish and maintain consistent, enterprise-grade APIs across services, ensuring interoperability and scalability while employing best practices for interactions with both partner and internal systems.
• Build robust backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SMS, ECS, and other cloud technologies.
• Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud-native environment (Flask/AWS Lambda/ECS).
• Design and implement scalable systems capable of handling high-volume transactions, ensuring robustness and reliability.
• Ensure security best practices are followed in all aspects of development and deployment.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards.
• Demonstrate technical leadership, driving timely execution and high-quality software delivery.
• Make informed architectural decisions through careful evaluation and leveraging prior experience.
• Self-manage tasks, collaborate effectively with both internal and external teams, and drive projects to successful completion.
• Represent the software development team’s products to stakeholders, providing technical insights and solutions.
• Responsible for adherence to the Capital Rx Code of Conduct including reporting of noncompliance.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills.
• Desire to work in a health technology company; previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience is a plus.
• Strong experience in Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React).
• Advanced PostgreSQL database knowledge, including common table expressions, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, and indexing techniques (full-text or geospatial).
• Experience working with microservices, an API-based application paradigm, and distributed caching techniques.
• Proven ability to deliver complex web applications to the cloud, targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform).
• Demonstrated ability to improve scalability and observability of systems.
• Proficiency in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js and similar tools.
• Experience with Git code management, preferably in a mono repository.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms and integration testing using frameworks like Playwright.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration in a remote environment and with major clients' technical and non-technical teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues.
• Prior experience working as a technical lead collecting functional and non-functional requirements, or strong technical product management experience is a plus.

Base Salary: $150,00 - $180,000

Nothing in this position description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

About Capital Rx

Capital Rx is a full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and pharmacy benefit administrator (PBA), advancing our nation’s electronic healthcare infrastructure to improve drug price visibility and patient outcomes. As a Certified B Corp™, Capital Rx is executing its mission through the deployment of JUDI®, the company’s cloud-native enterprise health platform, and a Single-Ledger Model™, which increases visibility and reduces variability in drug prices. JUDI connects every aspect of the pharmacy ecosystem in one efficient, scalable platform, servicing millions of members for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans. Together with its clients, Capital Rx is reimagining the administration of pharmacy benefits and rebuilding trust in healthcare.

Capital Rx values a diverse workplace and celebrates the diversity that each employee brings to the table. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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