As a Senior Software Developer within CoverMyMeds Specialty Access and Affordability, you'll design, build, and deliver software that helps patients get access to the medications they need. Our team builds the platforms and services that power prior authorization, affordability, and patient enrollment workflows, with direct and measurable impact on whether patients can start and stay on therapy.
You'll operate as a senior individual contributor, owning meaningful technical work end-to-end and partnering closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions. You'll have technical ownership of features and services within your domain, drive day-to-day delivery, and help raise the bar for engineering quality across the team.
What You'll Do- Design, develop, test, and deploy features and services that support Specialty Access and Affordability products and platform capabilities, including our FHIR-based data platform.
- Own delivery of complex features end-to-end, from requirements through production, including implementation, testing, and operational readiness.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and help shape the engineering standards we hold ourselves to.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teammates to translate product needs into technical solutions, surfacing risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs along the way.
- Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and sprint ceremonies with constructive feedback and ideas.
- Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, and informal mentorship of teammates.
- Improve code quality, performance, observability, and operational stability, and help us continue reducing deployment friction across our pipelines.
- Participate in on-call or support rotations to maintain system reliability.
Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus, OH metropolitan area. This role will allow for remote working.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role, presently or in the future.
Minimum Qualifications Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.
Critical Skills - 5-7+ years of professional software development experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong (5+ years) proficiency in modern backend and/or full-stack development using TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience (5+ years) with several of the following: Node.js, React, GraphQL, and event-driven systems (Kafka or similar).
- Production experience on Azure, or strong experience on a comparable major cloud with willingness to ramp up.
- Experience building and integrating APIs across distributed systems.
- Solid command of software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control, CI/CD, and observability.
- Ability to drive your work independently while collaborating effectively within a team.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with FHIR data models, healthcare integrations, or EHR-adjacent systems (Aidbox a plus).
- Familiarity with containerization and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Experience contributing to systems that operate at scale or support business-critical workflows.
- Interest in DORA metrics and continuous improvement of deployment and delivery practices.
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Our Base Pay Range for this position$131,000 - $218,300
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