Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Role Description

This role delivers high-impact full stack engineering across critical platforms powering Empower’s hyper-growth in a highly regulated 503A/503B pharmacy environment. The Staff Software Engineer owns end-to-end feature development, system reliability, and performance optimization, leveraging AI to accelerate development speed, enhance code quality, and improve decision-making. This position operates across frontend, backend, and data layers, ensuring scalable, compliant, and secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Software Development
  • Feature Delivery: Design, build, and deploy full stack features across frontend and backend systems, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with regulatory and business requirements.
  • Code Quality: Write clean, testable, and efficient code using modern frameworks and AI-driven code review tools, maintaining high standards for performance, security, and reliability within a regulated and fast-scaling environment.
  • System Integration: Develop and maintain APIs, services, and integrations across internal and external systems, ensuring seamless data flow, high availability, and compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• System Performance
  • Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application layers using monitoring tools and AI-driven insights, ensuring systems meet speed, scalability, and reliability expectations under increasing operational demand.
  • Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot production issues rapidly, applying structured debugging approaches and AI-assisted diagnostics to minimize downtime and maintain continuity in critical business operations.
  • Reliability Engineering: Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to proactively detect issues, improve system stability, and support consistent uptime in a high-availability environment.
• Collaboration Execution
  • Cross Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and regulatory constraints while maintaining high development velocity.
  • Agile Delivery: Participate in agile ceremonies, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, while continuously improving team efficiency and delivery outcomes using data and AI insights.
  • Documentation Practices: Maintain clear and accurate technical documentation, ensuring knowledge sharing, system transparency, and compliance readiness across engineering and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, and microservices design at enterprise scale.
• Strong proficiency in frontend technologies including React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript within production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Springboot, Node.js, and Python within production environments.
• Strong proficiency in GraphQL and/or Node.js-based development for distributed platform integration.
• Deep understanding of performance optimization, system reliability, and observability practices.
• Ability to design systems that meet regulatory, security, and data integrity requirements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver full stack solutions in production environments.
• 10+ years of experience in full stack development, including frontend frameworks, backend services, and database management, with a strong track record of shipping scalable, high-quality applications.
• Experience working in agile development environments, contributing to iterative delivery, continuous integration, and deployment practices while maintaining high standards for code quality and system reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve coding efficiency, testing, and debugging, with a mindset focused on continuous learning, performance improvement, and technical excellence.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
• Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
• Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
• Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.

Values

• People: Empowering people defines who we are.
• Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
• Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
• Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) matching.
• Wellness perks.
• IV therapy.
• Compounded medications.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear.
• The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday.
• Frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices.
• Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus.
• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.