Senior Software Engineer

About Photon

Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, giving them the power to compare prices, choose their pharmacy, and save money. By putting transparency and choice into patients’ hands, we’re reshaping the way prescriptions work.

Why Join Us?

It’s a unique time to join the engineering team which is still small and nimble. We move fast with creativity and ambition. As an early engineer, you’ll have a lot of involvement in shaping our team culture and tech stack, and the chance to create a product that is loved by many patients and providers.

This is your opportunity to join at the ground floor and help build the product and team at an exciting early stage health‑tech startup!

What You’ll Do

• Own features end to end: You’ll design, build and iterate on end to end features that impact hundreds of thousands of patients.
• Collaborate with multiple functions: Working with product, design, ops and GTM to deliver efficient and delightful experiences for our users.
• Mentor and learn from other engineers: You’ll help the team grow by mentoring others with your skillset, and in turn learn from each other.
• Level up the platform: You'll be a key voice in technical architectural decisions across the full stack platform and AI capabilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven track record: You have 4+ years of hands‑on engineering experience across design, development, and deployment.
• Ownership of the product: You excel in both product and technical thinking, owning the full lifecycle from concept to launch and iteration. You value craftsmanship, producing maintainable, reliable code that raises the technical bar.
• Empathic communicator: You communicate complex ideas clearly, and lead with curiosity.
• Customer focus and cross functional collaboration: You collaborate effectively, engage with customers, and evaluate solutions to deliver high‑quality features.
• You’re familiar with our current tech stack: Typescript, React, Node.js, AWS, Terraform
• Live in NYC metro area and able to come into the Brooklyn office 3 days a week.

Compensation

• Competitive base salary ($180-210k)
• Full benefits (healthcare, 401k, generous time‑off, work from home/hybrid flexibility).
• Competitive equity in a rapidly growing startup.