Senior Software Engineer (NYC)
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer at Blink, you'll take on some of our most critical technical challenges and drive high-impact product development. You’ll lead the design and execution of solutions that ensure millions of customers have seamless, affordable access to prescription medications. You’ll work hands-on, but also shape our technical strategy, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally with product, design, data, and operations to accelerate Blink’s growth. We believe in pragmatic engineering using trusted tools like AWS, Python, JavaScript, MySQL/Postgres, and Linux. We value simplicity, bias for action, and a deep focus on customer impact. This is an opportunity to be both a strategic leader and a builder.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with increasing scope and impact
- Proven experience owning significant systems or product areas from design through launch
- Strong expertise in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.)
- Experience in distributed systems, API design, and performance optimization
- Passion for mentoring and helping teams grow
- Track record of influencing without authority and aligning stakeholders across functions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and execution for complex features or systems across multiple teams or domains.
- Consistently raise the bar for code quality, reliability, and system design.
- Shape roadmaps and identifying opportunities to scale impact.
- Mentor and support senior and junior engineers alike, helping grow both technical skills and product intuition.
- Build with urgency and care, keeping customer experience and long-term maintainability in balance.
- Design and evolve backend and frontend architecture for scalable, high-performance systems
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
- Lead code reviews and promote engineering best practices
- Investigate and resolve complex performance or reliability issues
- Drive the release of new features end-to-end with testing, documentation, and monitoring
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to senior and junior engineers
- Help shape our engineering culture by modeling ownership, curiosity, and high standards
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment between engineering, product, and business
- Stay ahead of industry trends, tools, and technologies—and bring them back to the team
- Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ideas with a learning mindset
- Champion experimentation and data-driven decision making
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Give and receive feedback with empathy and honesty
- Build trust within and across teams to unlock high-impact collaboration
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
