Lead Software Engineer

Title: Lead Software Engineer 

Type: Full-time (Exempt)

Location: Fully Remote (United States)

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Who We Are:

SureCost is the leading provider of pharmacy purchasing and inventory management solutions. Our SaaS platform empowers pharmacies across the nation to streamline their operations, reduce costs, and stay compliant in an increasingly complex and competitive landscape. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions to pharmacies so they can simplify their daily activities and focus on providing the best patient care possible.
 

At SureCost, we think work/life balance should have, well, balance. With team members across the United States, we value the freedom of fully remote work, flex hours, and unlimited PTO are core to how we operate.

What You’ll Do: 

While maintenance and enhancement of current applications is part of what you will do here, responsibilities also include:

• Owning feature delivery from ideation to implementation with the support of our Head of Engineering as well as our Product Owners
• Leading a team of innovative and motivated engineers evaluating and integrating new technologies
• Maintaining a tight feedback loop with our product stakeholders to ensure all features meet our end-users needs
• Coordinating with other domain owners to communicate code interdependencies
• Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of your team's domain
• Fostering an environment that encourages education, code quality, and team mentorship
• Performing analysis, design, development, and unit testing of complex software applications.
• Creating web solutions utilizing best-practice technologies
• Working with fellow engineers and management to develop new tools or enhance current systems for customer requirements, correct defects, and integration with other systems.
• Being an integral part of our agile team process, with daily stand-up discussions, weekly sprint planning, retrospective processes, quarterly planning, and customer discussions.
• Participating in our on-call rotations to ensure system reliability

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum of 8 years software design and development experience
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role
• BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field is preferred
• Expertise in:
  • Java/JEE, Spring Framework, Struts and Hibernate
  • Object-oriented design
  • SQL database development

• Experience developing against large Java web-based and OO applications
• Familiar with Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs)
• Experience with microservices-based development
• Familiar with git-based repositories (Gitlab or Bitbucket)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda)
• Ability to break down and solve complex problems

Huge Plus if You Have:

• Experience with SQLServer, PostgreSQL, non-relational databases, and persistence stores
• Familiarity with JVM-based functional programming languages.
• Familiar with Docker
• Familiar with Nomad or Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of the healthcare and/or pharmacy industry
• Familiarity with purchasing and inventory management systems
• Familiarity with B2B data transactions using EDI
• Familiarity with developing microservices using AWS infrastructure
• Familiarity with event-driven design
• Familiarity with serverless architecture

Perks and Benefits:

We are proud to offer generous benefits including:

• Fully Remote
• Unlimited PTO (Highly suggested 3-week minimum)
• Flex Hours
• 100% healthcare premiums covered for employees 
• 70% healthcare premiums covered for dependents
• Low cost-to-employee vision and dental
• Automatic 3% employer addition to 401k
• 12 weeks of fully paid Parental Leave 
• Technology stipend to cover the equipment you need to set up your home office
• Professional development reimbursement

The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000-180,000/year. The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all of these factors. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

SureCost is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. 

We are required by federal law to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. We participate in E-Verify (Employment Verification). We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Please be advised that, if selected for this position, a background check will be conducted as a condition of employment upon acceptance of a contingent job offer.