Senior Backend Engineer, Pharmacy Integrations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and uphold backend integrations between Bask's platform and pharmacy partners.

• Create services that support prescription routing, pharmacy order creation, fulfillment processing, and status updates.

• Develop and sustain APIs, webhooks, and other integration methods for data exchange with external systems.

• Craft workflows that manage asynchronous events, retries, timeouts, duplicate messages, and third-party service failures.

• Construct and maintain backend applications utilizing TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, SST, and SQL databases.

• Employ AWS Lambda, SQS, and EventBridge for event-driven processing and background workflows.

• Design data models and database schemas for pharmacy orders, fulfillment events, and integration records.

• Implement validation, error handling, and reconciliation processes.

• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tools.

• Enhance the reliability and performance of pharmacy-related backend services.

• Collaborate with pharmacy operations teams and product managers.

• Work with external technical partners on API specifications, integration behavior, and testing requirements.

• Create secure data exchange workflows that involve authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive information.

• Assist in internal tools for troubleshooting order issues and monitoring integration statuses.

• Write automated tests for successful workflows, failures, and edge cases in integration.

• Investigate production incidents, determine root causes, and implement long-term solutions.

• Review code, provide technical guidance, and contribute to backend engineering best practices.

• Oversee integrations from design through deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.

• Utilize AI-assisted tools such as Cursor and Claude Code while ensuring correctness, security, and reliability.

• Establish reusable integration patterns for additional pharmacy partners and future platform enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in backend development.

• Strong expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js.

• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining production backend applications and APIs.

• Practical experience in integrating third-party services using REST APIs, webhooks, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with AWS services and serverless architectures.

• Experience with AWS Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or similar event-driven infrastructure.

• Strong background in SQL databases, relational data modeling, and database schema design.

• Proficiency with modern database access tools or ORMs, such as Prisma or Drizzle.

• Understanding of asynchronous processing, message queues, distributed systems, and integration architecture.

• Ability to design dependable systems that manage retries, failures, duplicate events, and inconsistent external data.

• Experience in implementing authentication, authorization, secure API communication, and sensitive data protection.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, particularly in addressing production integration failures.

• Experience writing automated tests for APIs, backend services, and integration workflows.

• Capability to independently manage complex engineering projects from technical design to production deployment.

• Deep understanding of performance, reliability, monitoring, and maintainability in production environments.

• Experience in making architectural decisions and assessing technical trade-offs.

• Familiarity with Git, code reviews, CI/CD workflows, and contemporary software development practices.

• Ability to effectively use AI-assisted development tools while independently validating the generated code.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to coordinate technical efforts with internal teams and external partners.

• Comfort in a fast-paced environment with significant ownership and responsibility.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• A collaborative and innovative work environment.