About the position
Blink Health is seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about building products that provide the best possible experience for customers purchasing prescription medications. The engineer will work on a highly collaborative team, taking ownership of challenging problems and driving strategic solutions. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential in growing the business, building the core platform, and ensuring customers have access to affordable and satisfying pharmacy experiences. The specific focus of the engineering role will be determined through the interview process, with potential areas including telemedicine, home delivery, growth, core pharmacy platform, and new product line development.
Responsibilities
- Designing new APIs to power new features
- Fixing performance problems and debugging production issues
- Performing peer code and architecture reviews
- Building new features, writing unit tests, and leading the release of these features to production
- Developing and AB testing new ReactJS components to improve user experience
- Helping the team ship new products and features successfully with the right skills, mentorship, and organizational resources
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers to reach individual goals while fostering cross-functional collaboration and product success
- Taking responsibility for the long-term success of product projects and people
- Demonstrating curiosity and continuously learning something new every day
Requirements
- Professional experience working on a team turning ideas into reliable, maintainable code
- Familiarity with AWS, Python, Javascript, Mysql/Postgres, and Linux
- Value simplicity and pragmatism in engineering
- Bias towards action and passion for building products that bring value to customers
- Ability to take ownership over challenging problems and drive execution like an entrepreneur
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams including designers, product managers, data scientists, marketers, and operators
- Focus on growing the business, building the core platform, and ensuring customers have access to affordable and satisfying pharmacy experience
- Potential areas of ownership include telemedicine platform, home delivery experience, growth team, core pharmacy platform, and new product line development
- Good execution: designing new APIs, fixing performance problems, performing code and architecture reviews, building new features, writing unit tests, and improving user experience with ReactJS components
- Good owner: helping the team ship new products and features successfully, mentoring and developing engineers, fostering collaboration, and taking responsibility for long-term success
- Good learning: demonstrating curiosity and continuously learning something new every day
Benefits
- Affordable and accessible prescription medications
- Cloud-based, pharma-to-patient platform
- Improved affordability, transparency, convenience, and accessibility
- Efficient prescription delivery system
- Lowest possible price for medications
- Highly collaborative team
- Opportunity to work on challenging problems
- Ownership over specific areas of engineering
- Telemedicine platform, home delivery experience, growth team, core pharmacy platform, and new product line development
- Opportunity for personal and professional growth
- Good Giving culture
- Good Execution: opportunity to do your best work, design new APIs, fix performance problems, perform code and architecture reviews, build new features, and improve user experience
- Good Owner: opportunity to lead and mentor, ensure product success, and take responsibility for long-term success
- Good Learning: opportunity to learn new techniques and stay up-to-date with trends, put new ideas into action, and learn from experiences
- Good Feedback: opportunity to listen actively, give and receive constructive feedback, promote trust, and encourage teamwork
- Desired experience: 3+ years in software engineering, collaborative environment, independent and curious mindset, ownership of features, experience with modern programming languages, ability to contribute immediately, focus on writing understandable and maintainable code
- Collaborative and communicative team
- Opportunity to make a difference in healthcare
- Focus on improving the lives of customers