Senior Backend Developer – Integrations

Capital Rx

Senior Backend Developer responsible for leading API integrations and backend solutions for pharmacy benefits. Collaborating with cross-functional teams in a remote-first environment at Judi Health.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudFlaskJavaScriptLinuxMicroservicesNode.jsPostgresPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the development and deployment of cutting-edge solutions from design to production.
Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine and implement requirements, ensuring seamless integration and user experience.
Engage with major clients and cross-functional teams to architect innovative solutions and enhance product functionality.
Establish and maintain consistent, enterprise-grade APIs across services, ensuring interoperability and scalability while employing best practices for interactions with both partner and internal systems.
Build robust backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SMS, ECS, and other cloud technologies.
Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud-native environment (Flask/AWS Lambda/ECS).
Design and implement scalable systems capable of handling high-volume transactions, ensuring robustness and reliability.
Ensure security best practices are followed in all aspects of development and deployment.
Conduct code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards.
Demonstrate technical leadership, driving timely execution and high-quality software delivery.
Make informed architectural decisions through careful evaluation and leveraging prior experience.
Self-manage tasks, collaborate effectively with both internal and external teams, and drive projects to successful completion.
Represent the software development team’s products to stakeholders, providing technical insights and solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills.
Desire to work in a health technology company; previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience is a plus.
Strong experience in Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React).
Advanced PostgreSQL database knowledge, including common table expressions, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, and indexing techniques (full-text or geospatial).
Experience working with microservices, an API-based application paradigm, and distributed caching techniques.
Proven ability to deliver complex web applications to the cloud, targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform).
Demonstrated ability to improve scalability and observability of systems.
Proficiency in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js and similar tools.
Experience with Git code management, preferably in a mono repository.
Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms and integration testing using frameworks like Playwright.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration in a remote environment and with major clients' technical and non-technical teams
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues.
Prior experience working as a technical lead collecting functional and non-functional requirements, or strong technical product management experience is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity to lead high-impact, client-facing initiatives that directly influence key business metrics.
Hands-on exposure to architecture, system design, and solving complex scalability challenges in real-world environments.
Be a catalyst in accelerating client migration and new client onboarding with direct visibility into outcomes.
Work on a team that values quick, elegant solutions to complex problems where your contributions shape the future of pharmacy benefits.
We have a remote-first culture.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFlaskTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLAWSTerraformLinuxBashNode.js

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationself-management