Senior Software Engineer

Company Mission

Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, which saves them time by allowing their patients to shop between pharmacies. The vision is to help consumers save money by increasing transparency.

Who are we looking for?

Photon is looking for creative and efficient engineers who will build and evolve products that delight customers. As an early engineer at the company, you will touch all services used by Photon’s customers and set direction for years to come. Beyond engineering, you’ll have an outsized impact on product direction and vision. You'll help identify and prioritize the most impactful problems to solve. And you will contribute to leveling up the engineering team through mentorship and improving tooling, processes, and engineering standards

This is your opportunity to join at the ground floor and help build the product and team at an exciting early stage digital health startup!

What will you be doing?

• Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
• Develop frontend experiences used by every Photon customer, whether it be patients, providers, pharmacists or internal users
• Own full features and products from conception to launch
• Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
• Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team
• Mentor engineers and help the team grow

What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining full stack applications, spanning data design, application logic, and user experiences.
• Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers.
• A desire to learn new systems and technology as our business evolves.
• Ability to design systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Live in NYC metro area
• A passion for working closely with customers.
• Creativity, empathy, and a drive for continuous improvement.