Senior Software Engineer

DrFirst, Inc. has been empowering providers and patients for 25 years through intelligent medication management. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build applications that facilitate healthcare transactions and improve patient care by working with various healthcare software APIs.

Responsibilities:

• Develop integrations by researching and working with unfamiliar APIs
• Build services and applications alongside your team and support those applications in production
• Participate in design sessions, stand-ups, and sprint planning and grooming meetings
• Contribute to collaborative design sessions across multiple development teams
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high-caliber code and sound engineering practices
• Mentor software engineers to help cultivate their skills and grow the team's capabilities
• Drive collaborative design decisions with your development team and product owner to build scalable, forward-thinking features
• Participate in technical interviews to help grow the engineering team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional back-end and service deployment experience using Java or Kotlin on a software development team
• Excellent working knowledge of Microservices Architecture, including REST and messaging patterns
• Strong experience creating unit and integration tests
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a new codebase and contribute meaningfully
• Experience with software development best practices, principles, and design patterns
• Ability to adapt to the standards, conventions, and workflows of the development team and organization
• Strong verbal and written communication skills when working with technical peers and stakeholders
• Demonstrated habit of using AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Codex) to accelerate development, improve code quality, and solve complex problems faster
• Strong familiarity with prompt engineering concepts and how to apply them in a development context
• Experience building or working with AI-assisted tooling, automation pipelines, or agentic workflows
• Drive to learn front-end technologies using modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue, Angular, or React
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar enterprise frameworks
• Experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform, or comparable container orchestration and cloud platforms
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts in software architecture