Senior Backend Developer (Python)

Join CapDevCR as a Senior Backend Developer and play a vital role in changing the way prescription benefits are priced and administered. In this position, you will use your expertise in Python and AWS to build scalable platforms, develop backend applications and APIs, and drive data-driven insights for better patient outcomes. Position Responsibilities: • Exercise leadership over all team products from design to production. • Work with product managers and designers to refine requirements before implementation. • Demonstrate technical leadership over product features. • Represent product features technically to stakeholders. • Demonstrate ownership and responsibility for large projects throughout their production lifecycles. • Interact with operations teams as needed to support correct product operation. • Build backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ECS, etc. • Process data value through data cleansing, reformatting, parsing, and analysis. • Interface with code written in a stateful web application framework (React/TypeScript). • Collaborate with developers to establish consistent APIs across our services. • Employ best practices for API interactions with frontend web applications. • Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud application paradigm (Flask/AWS Lambda/ECS). • Make strong architectural choices through careful evaluation and prior experience. • Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to continually deliver features to stakeholders and clients. • Responsible for adherence to the Code of Conduct including reporting of noncompliance. Qualifications: • 5+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills. • Desire to work in a health technology company. • Previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience preferred. • Git code management skills with experience working in a mono repository preferred. • Proficiency working in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js and similar tools. • Strong Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React) experience. • Advanced PostgreSQL database knowledge, e.g. common table expressions, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, full-text or geospatial indexing techniques. • Expert at developing backend data processing applications. • Proficiency targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform). • Experience integrating monitoring solutions for deployed software and resources. • A history of delivering complex web applications to the cloud. • Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms. • Knowledge of integration testing using Playwright or a similar framework. • Experience working with microservices/an API-based application paradigm. • Good written communication skills that enable collaboration in a remote environment. • Ability to work autonomously driving proactive collaboration to deliver results. Nothing in this position description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. About CapDevCR We are a build-to-suit software outsource company that supports the hiring and operations of our client; a transparent PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) with a new technology platform that is growing very rapidly due to the pharmacy channel market changes in the US. Contact us: [email protected]