Senior Backend Developer - Integrations

Overview

Capital Rx is a health technology company providing claim administration and technology solutions for carriers, health plans, TPAs, employer groups, and government entities. As a public benefit corporation, Capital Rx is executing its mission to materially reduce healthcare costs as a full-service PBM and through the deployment of Judi, the company’s cloud-native enterprise health platform. Judi connects every aspect of the healthcare ecosystem in one efficient, scalable platform, servicing millions of members for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans.

Together with its clients, Capital Rx is reimagining the administration of benefits and rebuilding trust in healthcare.

Remote (For Non-Local) or Hybrid (Local to NYC area)

Join our mission to transform pharmacy benefits. In this development role, you will lead large, high-impact projects, working closely with product managers, designers, and clients to gather both business and technical requirements with a product mindset. You will be at the forefront of technical solutioning, driving enterprise API integrations, data migrations, data exchange, and prioritizing security. This role involves extensive client interactions, API development, and ensuring scalability.

You will collaborate cross-functionally across internal teams and various departments within our client organizations to accelerate program technical deliveries. This is an exciting opportunity to redefine the pharmacy benefits landscape through collaboration and cutting-edge cloud technology.

• Lead the development and deployment of cutting-edge solutions from design to production.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine and implement requirements, ensuring seamless integration and user experience.
• Engage with major clients and cross-functional teams to architect innovative solutions and enhance product functionality.
• Establish and maintain consistent, enterprise-grade APIs across services, ensuring interoperability and scalability while employing best practices for interactions with both partner and internal systems.
• Build robust backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SMS, ECS, and other cloud technologies.
• Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud-native environment (Flask/AWS Lambda/ECS).
• Design and implement scalable systems capable of handling high-volume transactions, ensuring robustness and reliability.
• Ensure security best practices are followed in all aspects of development and deployment.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards.
• Demonstrate technical leadership, driving timely execution and high-quality software delivery.
• Make informed architectural decisions through careful evaluation and leveraging prior experience.
• Self-manage tasks, collaborate effectively with both internal and external teams, and drive projects to successful completion.
• Represent the software development team’s products to stakeholders, providing technical insights and solutions.

• 7+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills.
• Desire to work in a health technology company; previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience is a plus.
• Strong experience in Python (Flask/SQL Alchemy) and Type Script (React).
• Advanced Postgre
  
  SQL database knowledge, including common table expressions, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, and indexing techniques (full-text or geospatial).
• Experience working with microservices, an API-based application paradigm, and distributed caching techniques.
• Proven ability to deliver complex web applications to the cloud, targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform).
• Demonstrated ability to improve scalability and observability of systems.
• Proficiency in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js and similar tools.
• Experience with Git code management, preferably in a mono repository.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms and integration testing using frameworks like Playwright.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration in a remote…