Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

About Dr First

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 a few companies. If you get excited about stretching yourself in new ways, developing yourself to your fullest potential, care about working with smart colleagues; we want to talk to you!

As a Software Engineer on the Gadget team, you will play a significant role in developing a next‑generation cloud‑native, high‑performance e‑prescribing collaboration platform. This platform is designed to be highly scalable, highly available, and resilient, facilitating real‑time interactions among healthcare providers, patients, payers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies. You will help design and build a system that delivers seamless functionality under high load while incorporating self‑healing, auto‑scaling, and observability features to ensure reliability and maintainability r work will be pivotal in ensuring the platform handles high throughput, operates with minimal downtime, and recovers gracefully from unexpected failures.

• A builder who thrives on designing and shipping cloud‑native microservices that operate at scale with high availability and fault tolerance
• A problem solver who gets energized by diagnosing performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and implementing lasting fixes
• A collaborator who works effectively across cross‑functional teams to deliver integrated solutions connecting providers, patients, payers, and pharmacies
• A craftsperson who cares deeply about code quality, secure coding practices, and mentoring junior engineers toward growth
• A learner who stays current with emerging technologies, welcomes coaching, and continuously seeks ways to sharpen their skills and optimize system performance

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve high‑quality, scalable, and secure Java‑based integration solutions
• Design and implement cloud‑native microservices on AWS, ensuring auto‑scaling, fault tolerance, high availability, and self‑healing capabilities
• Develop and maintain integrations with major EHR platforms, including Athena One, Epic, Oracle Health, Green Way, AdvancedMD, eMDs, and Mod Med, utilizing their APIs and relevant integration technologies (HL7, FHIR, web services, Mirth Connect)
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to build a next‑generation e‑prescribing collaboration platform that connects providers, patients, payers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies in real time
• Develop and maintain event‑driven architectures using message brokers like Kafka, ensuring reliable and efficient inter‑service communication
• Ensure seamless system integration with large‑scale, distributed platforms while maintaining high throughput and low latency
• Work closely with Dev Ops to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, deployment, and monitoring workflows
• Design and implement AI‑powered automation frameworks to accelerate development cycles and automatically execute regression testing, enhancing software quality and release efficiency
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve performance issues across services using observability tools and logs
• Follow and enforce secure coding practices and participate in security audits and reviews
• Participate in code reviews, provide technical mentorship to junior developers, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Stay current with industry trends and continuously seek ways to optimize system performance, resilience, and…