Key skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGolangSQLAILLMOpenAIClaudeAnthropicAgenticKafkaRailsGraphQLAWSKubernetesDockerEKSLambdaPostgreSQLLeadershipMentoringCommunication
About this role
SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company dedicated to disrupting the Pharmacy Benefit Management sector. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI, you will be a key architect in building a next-generation, AI-native pharmacy benefits platform, focusing on designing systems that leverage AI while ensuring reliability and accuracy in healthcare transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Focus on architecting system; discovering, designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using a varied technology stack such as Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, GraphQL, and SQL (amongst others), while leveraging full CI and CD to iterate quickly
- Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to translate requirements into high-quality, AI-native scalable software, while providing scope and risk assessments through comprehensive technical design documentation
- Be the Stochastic/Deterministic Bridge: Build the "safety rails" around LLMs, creating deterministic software systems that effectively manage, validate, and wrap the stochastic nature of AI models to ensure 100% accuracy in healthcare data
- Continually apply and enforce software development best practices, design patterns, testing, automation, tools and technologies by adoption of emerging AI technologies like Claude-code, Copilot or aikes
- Leverage AWS technologies, like Lambda, Managed Kafka, EKS to handle various types of jobs and batch processing
- Troubleshoot production issues by performing triages for issues that arise, assessing the impact, creating and executing a plan for short-term and long-term mitigation, and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues
- Foster a collaborative learning culture by mentoring junior engineers in both traditional backend best practices and emerging AI-native development patterns, while driving technical excellence through code reviews and the exploration of innovative technologies
- Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
Requirements:
- BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience
- 8+ years of software development experience working on server-side applications, specifically around API servers, third party integrations and data processing
- Expertise in a compiled language such as GoLang or Java is required
- Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, SQL tuning, and database monitoring is required
- Working knowledge of GraphQL APIs, CI and CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus
- Agentic Frameworks, MCP, LLM APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI), Prompt Engineering/Evals
- Communication: A collaborative approach to engineering, capable of explaining technical trade-offs to stakeholders and mentoring a distributed team
- Architectural Mindset: Ability to design for scale, performance, and maintainability while navigating the ambiguity of a high-growth startup
- Positivity; non-dogmatic, team-first attitude
- Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity
- Experience at a high-growth startup a plus