Senior Software Engineer, Capsule
Full Stack
On-demand prescription medicine delivery
Job no longer available
On-demand prescription medicine delivery
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Capsule's mission is to make everything about visiting a pharmacy easier, starting with the fact that you shouldn't have to visit a physical store in the first place.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript build pipelines and tooling
- 3+ years of HTML/CSS experience, including concepts such as layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
- 3+ years of JavaScript experience, including concepts such as asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6+
- 3+ years experience with browser APIs and optimizing front end performance
- 1+years experience working with any of following languages Kotlin/Python/Java etc
- Experience working with relational databases and PostgreSQL
- Experience contributing to the architecture and system design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- You have been part of a team that owned software components critical to business
- You take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team. You think ahead to anticipate the needs of your teammates and you give and get all the facts making it easy for others to make decisions
- You drive results in a way that makes everyone better. You accomplish ambitious objectives while uplifting the team around you. You're a magnet for team members looking to get better and be successful
- You work hard and want to have fun while you do so. You celebrate wins and remember to enjoy the journey as we build something iconic
- You can work both fast and right and don't view them as trade-offs. You understand when things require precision and accuracy and where 80% gets you to the desired outcome
- You thrive on being pushed and challenged. You communicate effectively both in written form and live / on your feet - you are not fazed by tough questions in the moment
- You strike the right balance between putting enough work in to share something, but not going off into a corner for weeks at a time to polish something to perfection
- You operate like an owner and expect others to as well. You take personal responsibility and value personal responsibility in others
- You check your ego at the door. You are interested in finding the right answer vs. always having the right answer
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Capsule, you will be responsible for building features and user interfaces that enable a seamless customer experience
- You will work closely with the logistics and operations teams to design and develop software to enable them to deliver medication precisely and efficiently
- You will work closely with pharmacists to design and develop software that enables them to scale up the number of prescriptions they are able to safely and efficiently fill, making free same-day delivery of medication available to more and more people
- Lead or participate in implementation of key projects that contribute to the company OKRs
- Implement the features and user interfaces of Capsule’s applications targeting diverse categories of end users including: consumers, pharmacists, doctors, and logistics personnel
- Architect efficient and reusable front end systems that drive complex web applications
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems
- Review product requirements, provide detailed software design and build the software that meets the requirements in high-quality and clean code using React, Redux, Javascript, Typescript, Python and other programming languages your team uses to build Capsule systems
- Write Technical Specs that communicate architectural approaches and present them to internal peers for review and feedback
- Provide mentorship to other engineers through code reviews and architecture reviews
- Build accessible, considerate systems that are usable by everyone - you will learn WCAG standards, how to build systems that work well with a screenreader, etc
Our take
Capsule is an online pharmacy service that believes caring is just as important as prescriptions and try to provide both, side by side, to its customers. Capsule offers same-day medication delivery, with couriers delivering prescriptions by bike or by car. There is no extra charge for using Capsule or having your medication delivered. Instead, Capsule uses a traditional pharmacy model.
Capsule are not the only startup looking to reinvent the pharmacy experience. Perhaps the most well-known digital pharmacy is PillPack, which was acquired by Amazon for close to $1 billion. Capsule is looking to stand out by utilizing technologies like predictive inventories.
In the future the company plans to become the one-stop shop for all of its users' medical needs, as well as offer deliveries for other healthcare companies. The latter service will be targeted at insurers, telemedicine providers, physicians and employers, allowing them to easily implement deliveries. This seems to be a move that could allow Capsule establish itself along all points on the tele-medicine supply chain and bring the company closer to its ultimate one-stop-shop goal.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Eric Kinariwala
(CEO)Prior to founding Capsule, Eric invested in global healthcare, technology, and retailcompanies as part of the investment teams at Bain Capital and Perry Capital. He received his undergraduate degree as a University Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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