Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the PBM Platform team, responsible for designing and delivering systems that power pharmacy benefits and manage member cost-sharing.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive technical initiatives
- Design and build core platform components
- Make architectural decisions (service boundaries, data modeling, API contracts) and document them so the team can build on them
- Work through complex domain problems
- Elevate the team around you
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing, code review, and design discussions. Not just catching bugs, but teaching patterns
- Transfer knowledge proactively, mentoring engineers to discover the 'why' with a deep foundation of how systems are built
- Establish and maintain coding standards, testing strategies for your initiative area
- Participate in domain learning sessions with PBM subject matter experts and help translate business rules into system design
- Build and maintain production systems
- Design and build gRPC APIs using NestJS or Go (depending on the component) with PostgreSQL for persistence
- Build internal tooling interfaces in React
- Implement normalized data models (3NF) for complex domain entities
- Define and implement service communication patterns using Protocol Buffers and gRPC
- Own observability for your systems. Maintain Datadog monitors, Sentry error tracking, and know when something is wrong before users report it
- Build with test-driven development: define expected outcomes upfront, then build until they pass
- Shape how we work
- Contribute to architecture decisions in cross-team forums
- Drive AI-native development practices by establishing workflows, sharing findings, and helping the team use AI tools effectively
- Identify and raise risks early, including timeline slippage, technical debt, vendor reliability issues, and compliance gaps
- Coordinate across team boundaries when your work touches other services or teams
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into technical leadership
- Strong backend engineering depth. You've designed and built services in TypeScript and/or Go that handle complex business logic, financial calculations, or rules engines
- Strong data modeling instincts. You think carefully about schema design, normalization trade-offs, and how data decisions cascade through a system
- Experience with service-oriented architectures. You've designed APIs, defined service boundaries, and dealt with the realities of distributed systems (failure modes, composition patterns, contract evolution)
- Comfortable with ambiguity. You can take a product objective and break it down into shippable engineering work without waiting for someone to hand you a spec. This is a greenfield platform and you'll be making foundational decisions with imperfect information
- Strong communicator. You can explain technical trade-offs to product partners, write clear technical documents, and translate domain complexity into clean system design
- Experience in healthcare or pharmacy benefits systems
- Familiarity with pharmacy standards (NCPDP, GPI, NDC)
- Experience building financial calculation engines or rules engines
- Familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and multi-service TypeScript/Go architectures
- Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning, migrations, and query optimization
- Experience leading AI-assisted development workflows and establishing team standards around AI tooling
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