Job description
At House Rx, we’re driven by something special: making specialty medications more accessible and affordable. Our 25+ person product, design, and engineering (PDE) team, part of our broader 125+ person company, creates technology that helps patients access the life-saving drugs they need. We bring our hearts and minds to this meaningful work, fostering a caring, dedicated, and supportive environment.
About The Role
As an experienced Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer on our PDE team, you’ll be a key driver in designing, developing, and implementing innovative solutions for our pharmacy management system (NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, AWS, Postgres). This role is for an independent contributor who thrives on cross-functional collaboration, takes initiative to make a tangible impact, and operates with autonomy on significant features, championing code quality and engineering best practices.
What You’ll Do
- Design & Deliver Impact: Design, architect, and implement impactful full-stack features, enhancing user experience for internal teams and external healthcare providers.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Actively contribute to and advocate for our engineering guidelines, code quality standards, and automation processes.
- Drive Solutions: Proactively identify technical challenges and improvement opportunities, planning and driving effective solutions to completion with autonomy.
- Collaborate Effectively: Partner with product managers, designers, QA, and fellow engineers to translate requirements into elegant technical solutions, communicating technical considerations.
- Ensure System Reliability: Take ownership of resolving production issues in your areas of expertise, contributing to platform stability and performance.
- Contribute & Mentor: Manage project priorities, share your knowledge openly, participate in thoughtful team discussions, and potentially mentor other engineers.
About You
You’re an experienced full-stack engineer passionate about building high-quality software and collaborating effectively. You’re proactive, take pride in your work, and are eager to contribute to our meaningful mission.
Technical Proficiency:
- 2-5 years of hands-on full-stack development experience.
- Experience with NodeJS, TypeScript, and/or ReactJS.
- Experience with AWS, designing/consuming APIs, and relational databases (Postgres).
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering, bootcamp, or equivalent practical experience.
Ownership & Impact:
- You take initiative, driving your work from planning through delivery with a high degree of agency and a focus on quality.
- You advocate for best practices and build well-crafted, maintainable software.
Collaborative Problem-Solver:
- Adept at dissecting complex requirements to architect thoughtful, scalable solutions, and communicating trade-offs.
- Strong cross-functional collaborator, effectively communicating with diverse stakeholders.
- Pragmatic, business-aware, and adaptable, valuing team success.
- Effectively leverage or explore AI development tools, applying strong engineering judgment.
Why You’ll Enjoy Building With Us
- Meaningful Impact: Directly contribute to technology that improves patient access to medication.
- Ownership & Initiative: Experience significant autonomy/opportunity to lead impactful projects.
- Technical Challenges & Innovation: Tackle exciting problems, balancing user features and internal systems, with room to innovate. Knowing that each commit and conversation can make a difference.
- Vibrant & Supportive Culture: Join a fun, thoughtful, down-to-earth team that values collaboration, continuous learning, and celebrating successes.
In particular, we offer:
- Flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Generous parental leave
- Comprehensive healthcare, vision and dental benefits
- Competitive salary and equity stake
We’re backed by forward-thinking investors committed to transforming healthcare, including Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, LRV Health, Khosla Ventures, Maverick Ventures, 1984.vc, and Character.
While a cover letter is optional, a note sharing your enthusiasm for House Rx and this role is highly insightful.
Expected Full-Time Base Salary: $145,000-$165,000
This range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary/wage. The actual base salary/wage will depend on several factors, including experience, knowledge, and skills. Actual compensation packages may include other elements equity, paid time off and benefits.
More About House Rx: Our Team, Work, and Culture
Here’s our amazing PDE team that builds healthcare technology that matters:
- Software Engineering: 10 engineers+ from early career to staff/architect level
- Product & Design: 3 product managers, 2 designers
- Infrastructure: 2 IT specialists, 2 security engineers, 3 SREs
- Quality & Support: 3 QA engineers, 2 support specialists
Together, we build and maintain impactful solutions through our pharmacy management system and data insights platform. These tools enable our internal teams, pharmacists, care coordinators, and clinical operations, to streamline medication access, while helping external healthcare providers and clinics deliver better patient care.
💻 Our engineering work presents exciting technical challenges as we balance user-facing features with robust internal systems. We release updates daily, requiring thoughtful prioritization and technical excellence while maintaining high quality. This iterative approach means we’re constantly innovating to deliver meaningful improvements to our healthcare platform.
🌎 We’re a fully remote team, with our talented people spread across New York, Boston, San Francisco, and throughout the U.S. While we embrace the flexibility of remote work, we’re passionate about strengthening connections through our bi-annual retreats, both company-wide and PDE-specific, where we plan, grow, and celebrate our successes together. Local team members enjoy getting together for co-working and social events, creating bonds that go beyond the workplace.
🎉 Our culture brings thoughtfulness to our daily work. You’ll find us expressing ourselves through our extensive Slack emoji and GIF collection (seriously, it’s impressive!), sharing gratitude circles on birthdays, and having conversations that range from foodie recommendations to discussions about AI tooling, developer experience, and architecture. While we take our mission seriously, we believe enjoying what you do and technical excellence go hand in hand.
We’re a fun, thoughtful, supportive, talented, and down-to-earth group focused on doing some of the best work of our lives. At the end of the day, we know software is built by people – and we’re committed to taking care of both the people we work with and the patients whose lives we touch through our technology. We’re growing our team. There’s no one else in the world like you, and hope you can join us for this ride! 🚀
In particular, we offer:
- Flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Generous parental leave
- Comprehensive healthcare, vision and dental benefits
- Competitive salary and equity stake
We’re backed by forward-thinking investors committed to transforming healthcare, including Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, LRV Health, Khosla Ventures, Maverick Ventures, 1984.vc, and Character.
