Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, eRx Enterprise and Gadget

For 25 years, DrFirst has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management. We improve healthcare workflows and help patients start and stay on therapy with end-to-end solutions that enhance prescription access, affordability, and adherence. Our solutions help 100 million patients a year and are used by more than 420,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 270 EHRs and health information systems, and over 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a successful Healthcare IT company experiencing significant growth.

Here you’ll get to work with some of the smartest and most interesting people around, solving unique and complex challenges in healthcare on a scale matched by few companies. If you get excited about stretching yourself in new ways, developing yourself to your fullest potential, and care about working with smart colleagues, we want to talk to you!

DrFirst is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the eRx Enterprise and Gadget team. Your first focus is Gadget, our pharmacy agent. Over time you will extend your work into Rcopia, our ePrescribing platform, on Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) workflows.

You will build cloud native, high performance services for an ePrescribing collaboration platform. The platform connects providers, patients, payers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies in real time. You will design systems built for high load, with self healing, auto scaling, and full observability.

You bring strong judgment about AI. You know when AI speeds up delivery and when AI produces weak code. You apply AI to raise code quality, performance, and design standards across the team, and you solve real problems for the pharmacies and prescribers who rely on our platform.

• Build and improve Gadget, the DrFirst pharmacy agent, from design through production.
• Contribute to Rcopia EPCS and PDMP capabilities as the team roadmap expands.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable Java integration solutions.
• Build cloud native microservices on AWS with auto scaling, fault tolerance, high availability, and self healing.
• Develop and maintain integrations with major EHR platforms, including athena
  
  One, Epic, Oracle Health, Greenway, AdvancedMD, eMDs, and Mod Med, using HL7, FHIR, web services, APIs, and Mirth Connect.
• Build and maintain event driven architectures with Apache Kafka for reliable, efficient service communication.
• Deliver high throughput and low latency across large, distributed platforms.
• Partner with Dev Ops on CI/CD pipelines that automate testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Design AI powered automation frameworks for faster development cycles and automated regression testing.
• Decide where AI adds value in the codebase and where human design must lead. Set review standards for AI assisted code.
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve performance issues with observability tools and logs.
• Follow and enforce secure coding practices. Take part in security audits and reviews.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior developers, and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Track industry trends and improve system performance, resilience, and developer productivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of hands on Java development with deep knowledge of object oriented design and the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• 3+ years designing and building cloud native applications on AWS, including S3, Valkey, Lambda, RDS, and EKS or ECS.
• 3+ years with distributed…