# Staff Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [SmithRx](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/smithrx)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, Postgres, AWS, AWS Lambda, Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Java, Kotlin
**Posted:** 2026-04-01

> Designs and develops scalable back-end architecture for product features using Golang, GraphQL, SQL, and AWS services. Requires 8-12 years experience with server-side apps, APIs, databases, plus expertise in compiled languages and mentoring juniors.

## Job Description

## What you will do

- Focus on back-end architecture; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages 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 understand functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software and services
- Provide scope and risk estimates for system and feature builds by building technical design documentation
- Continually apply software development best practices, design patterns, testing, automation, tools and technologies.
- Leverage **AWS** technologies, like **Lambda** and **Fargate**, 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.
- Coach/mentor junior team members in their assigned engineering projects by reviewing and providing feedback on code developed, and performing design and code reviews
- Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Be the cornerstone of a collaborative learning culture through mentorship, code reviews, the exploration of new technologies, and other innovations

## What you will bring to SmithRx

- **BS** or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience
- **8-12 years** of software development experience working on server-side applications, specifically around API servers, third party integrations and data processing
- Experience at a high-growth startup a plus
- Expertise in a compiled language such as **Go**, **Java** or **Kotlin** is required
- Proficiency with relational databases such as **PostgreSQL**, including schema design, **SQL** tuning, and database monitoring is required
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable APIs; a solid understanding of design patterns, database design, and testing best practices.
- Working knowledge of **GraphQL** APIs, **CI/CD** pipeline, **AWS** platform, **Docker**, and **Kubernetes** a plus
- Positivity; non-dogmatic, team-first attitude
- Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity
- Highly disciplined approach to software design and development and ability to work on features independently (accurately forecast delivery milestones and work with stakeholders to ensure that expectations are met)

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