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Director, Software Engineering

Princeton, New Jersey, United States, or Remote

RxSense is a leading healthcare technology company delivering innovative solutions for pharmacy benefits and prescription savings. Our enterprise platform brings transparency, flexibility, and efficiency to pharmacy benefit management, helping clients streamline operations and enabling consumers to save on prescriptions. By integrating intelligence across the pharmacy ecosystem, RxSense makes cost-effective healthcare more accessible. Whether for PBMs, pharmacies, or individuals, our solutions help modernize operations, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. 

RxSense also owns and operates SingleCare, a free prescription savings service that offers consumers access to consistently low prices on prescription drugs. Through its partnerships with the country’s largest pharmacies and grocers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons, SingleCare improves access and adherence to affordable medications and has helped millions of Americans save over $11 billion on their medications. 

RxSense is a great place to work! Our company has earned several prestigious awards, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Top Startup Employers, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, and Inc’s Best in Business and Best Workplaces.

Position Summary: 

The Director Software Engineer will lead small teams (offshore/onshore), delegate work to a team of engineers and Engineering Managers and be willing to be a hands-on developer and an individual contributor with an architectural and technical design mindset for a core piece of our platform product. This position will be part of a cross-functional, largely autonomous product engineering team, collaborating with other engineers, engineering managers, architects, and product managers to scale our cloud-based platform. The individual in this position will be required to manage, guide, and mentor other engineers and engineering managers on both their teams and across our company. Accountable for the design, architecture, quality, and delivery of the systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Identify, conceive, and deliver without supervision, with complete latitude for independent
  • Partner with directors, engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and leverage most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those
  • Build infrastructure to handle millions of transactions and secure, sensitive health data
  • Design and architect software capable of reaching millions of users
  • Write modular, secure, and well-tested code
  • Ensure our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams
  • Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
  • Conduct performance reviews.
  • Mentor less experienced peers, and engineering managers
  • Take product operational responsibility set measurable goals and meet
  • Manage technical debt, ensure code quality, and participate in code
  • Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability
  • Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team, and look for opportunities to improve them

Education/Experience/Competencies:

  • BS (or higher, g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience
  • Experience managing multiple teams and Engineering Managers both onshore/offshore.
  • 15+ years of work-related industry experience developing high-performance web applications in C#/ .NET.
  • Experience architecting and developing distributed systems
  • Experience writing RESTful
  • Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
  • Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, Kinesis)
  • Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning
  • Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example, with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, WebAPI, IIS
  • Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience
  • Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with a user mindset
  • A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
  • Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway or with a different cloud provider and similar services
  • Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities
  • Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion
  • Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model
  • Proven analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
  • Experience with specific technologies such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) is nice to have.
  • Experience migrating monolithic architecture to micro services architecture and a good working knowledge of message queuing systems is nice to have.

Salaray Range: 190,000 - 225,000

RxSense believes that a diverse workforce is a more talented and productive workforce. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our recruitment process is free from discriminatory hiring practices and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin.  Neither will qualified applicants be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.  We believe in the strength of the collaboration, creativity and sense of community a diverse workforce brings. 

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