Software Engineer

DrFirst, Inc. is a company that has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management for 25 years. They are seeking a Software Engineer to develop a next-generation cloud-native e-prescribing collaboration platform, focusing on high performance and scalability while ensuring system reliability and maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve high-quality, scalable, and secure Java-based integration solutions
• Design and implement cloud-native microservices on AWS, ensuring auto-scaling, fault tolerance, high availability, and self-healing capabilities
• Develop and maintain integrations with major EHR platforms, including Athena One, Epic, Oracle Health, GreenWay, AdvancedMD, eMDs, and ModMed, utilizing their APIs and relevant integration technologies (HL7, FHIR, web services, Mirth Connect)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build a next-generation e-prescribing collaboration platform that connects providers, patients, payers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies in real time
• Develop and maintain event-driven architectures using message brokers like Kafka, ensuring reliable and efficient inter-service communication
• Ensure seamless system integration with large-scale, distributed platforms while maintaining high throughput and low latency
• Work closely with DevOps to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, deployment, and monitoring workflows
• Design and implement AI-powered automation frameworks to accelerate development cycles and automatically execute regression testing, enhancing software quality and release efficiency
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve performance issues across services using observability tools and logs
• Follow and enforce secure coding practices and participate in security audits and reviews
• Participate in code reviews, provide technical mentorship to junior developers, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Stay current with industry trends and continuously seek ways to optimize system performance, resilience, and developer productivity

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of hands-on Java development experience, with deep understanding of Java, object-oriented design principles, and the Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud)
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing cloud-native applications on AWS, with strong familiarity with services like S3, Valkey, Lambda, RDS, and EKS/ECS
• 3+ years of experience with distributed messaging systems, such as Apache Kafka, and a solid grasp of event streaming
• Proven experience building and integrating large-scale, high-performance, distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and low latency
• Proficiency in developing and consuming RESTful APIs, with solid understanding of JSON and XML data formats
• Strong hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and query optimization
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar
• Solid knowledge of application and data security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data protection
• Highly self-motivated and capable of working independently in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset
• Demonstrated ability and desire to learn new technologies, accept coaching, and grow within a collaborative engineering team
• Hands-on experience with large-scale, mission-critical systems in finance, brokerage, trading, or credit card processing environments, particularly those requiring low latency, high throughput, and high availability
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience with healthcare integration standards (HL7, FHIR, NCPDP SCRIPT)
• Experience with EHR platform integrations