This is a top-of-the-house technical leadership role. You’re not just shipping features, you’re steering multi-year, multi-team initiatives, shaping architecture choices, and keeping the whole platform healthy while the business scales. If you love setting the technical direction and bringing teams along with you, this is that seat at the table.
About SmithRx
SmithRx is a venture-backed health tech company on a mission to modernize the Pharmacy Benefit Management space with a next-generation drug acquisition platform powered by cutting-edge tech, cost-saving tools, and high-touch service. They’re fast-growing, mission-driven, and serious about building durable systems.
Schedule
- Full-time, remote
- Senior technical leadership partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design leadership
- Cross-team influence role driving multi-year initiatives and platform quality
What You’ll Do
- Define and align technical strategy for multi-year, multi-team initiatives tied to company goals
- Own major architecture decisions, including framework/tooling selection and build-versus-buy calls
- Design systems for reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability with staged validation plans
- Run system “health” reviews and raise engineering quality through documentation and testing strategy
- Drive testing and validation frameworks for high-reliability systems
- Design platforms with embedded ML capabilities that are production-ready
- Collaborate with ML engineers on anomaly detection and NLP-related systems to meet SLAs
- Partner with Directors, PMs, and Design leadership to align technical direction with business objectives
- Influence product scope and trade-offs to maximize customer value without sacrificing quality
- Rally teams around a clear technical vision, especially when choices affect the whole org
- Step in when projects drift off-course and refocus efforts toward meaningful business impact
- Mentor engineers across levels and set the bar for engineering excellence
What You Need
- BS (or advanced degree) in CS or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience (or 12+ with an advanced degree)
- Deep expertise in system architecture: scalability, reliability, maintainability
- Strong build-versus-buy judgment and framework/tool evaluation chops
- Track record tackling ambiguous problems with research and validation plans
- Proven ownership of system quality: testing strategies, documentation, operational rigor
- Strong influence skills across teams and stakeholder groups
- Working knowledge of ML concepts, including NLP and anomaly detection in production contexts
- Excellent communication: you can simplify the complex and build alignment fast
Benefits
- Medical, pharmacy, dental, vision
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) retirement program
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Discretionary PTO
- 12 paid company holidays
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Professional development and training
- Well-stocked kitchens in office locations
Quick gut-check: this is “architect + diplomat + quality sheriff.” If you don’t enjoy influencing without direct authority, this role will be miserable. If you do, you’ll be dangerous in the best way.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…