Senior Software Engineer

Blink Health • Pittsburgh, PA

11d

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.
What Success Looks Like:
You lead architecture and execution for complex features or systems across multiple teams or domains.
You consistently raise the bar for code quality, reliability, and system design.
You are a trusted partner to product and business leaders, shaping roadmaps and identifying opportunities to scale impact.
You mentor and support senior and junior engineers alike, helping grow both technical skills and product intuition.
You build with urgency and care, keeping customer experience and long-term maintainability in balance.
Key Focus Areas:
You’ll own one or more strategic initiatives, which may include:
Our telemedicine platform
The home delivery experience
Growth experimentation and personalization
Core pharmacy infrastructure
Development of entirely new product lines
What You’ll Do:
Technical Leadership & Execution
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
Team Development & Mentorship
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
Innovation & Learning
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
Communication & Feedback
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

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.
• Act as a trusted partner to product and business leaders, shaping 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.
• Own one or more strategic initiatives, which may include: Our telemedicine platform, The home delivery experience, Growth experimentation and personalization, Core pharmacy infrastructure, Development of entirely new product lines.
• 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.

Benefits

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior