[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Rightway

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the PBM Adjudication team at Rightway. This team is building our next-generation claims adjudication platform. You'll help design and deliver the systems that process pharmacy claims, determine coverage and pricing, and manage member cost-sharing across our entire book of business.

This isn't a "write features to spec" role. Our senior engineers own initiatives end-to-end:

• Shape architecture
• Define technical direction
• Unblock other engineers
• Drive delivery across multiple workstreams

You'll partner directly with product and domain experts to make scope and sequencing decisions, not just implement them. You'll be the person your teammates come to when they're stuck, and you'll build the documentation, patterns, and tooling so they get stuck less often.

The stack is React on the frontend with TypeScript (NestJS) and Go on the backend. You should be comfortable working across both backend languages. We're an AI-native engineering team that uses AI tooling daily in our development workflow and expects our senior engineers to lead adoption, establish best practices, and help the team get better at working with these tools. The adjudication team is designed from day one around AI-assisted development.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive technical initiatives
• Design and build core adjudication platform components:
  • Eligibility engines
  • Pricing calculators
  • Network management
  • Claims processing pipelines
• Make architectural decisions (service boundaries, data modeling, API contracts) and document them
• Work through complex domain problems
• Elevate the team around you
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through pairing, code review, and design discussions
• Transfer knowledge proactively, mentoring engineers to discover the "why" with a deep foundation of how systems are built
• Establish and maintain coding standards, testing strategies for your initiative area
• Participate in domain learning sessions with PBM subject matter experts
• Build and maintain production systems
• Design and build gRPC APIs using NestJS or Go with PostgreSQL for persistence
• Build internal tooling interfaces in React
• Implement normalized data models (3NF) for complex domain entities
• Define and implement service communication patterns using Protocol Buffers and gRPC
• Own observability for your systems
• Build with test-driven development
• Contribute to architecture decisions in cross-team forums
• Drive AI-native development practices
• Identify and raise risks early
• Coordinate across team boundaries when your work touches other services or teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into technical leadership
• Strong backend engineering depth
• Strong data modeling instincts
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong communicator

Bonus Points for

• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefits, or claims processing systems
• Familiarity with pharmacy standards (NCPDP, GPI, NDC) or drug pricing models
• Experience building financial calculation engines, rules engines, or pricing systems
• Familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and multi-service TypeScript/Go architectures
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning, migrations, and query optimization
• Experience leading AI-assisted development workflows

Compensation

• BASE SALARY: $160,000 - $190,000 + bonus + equity
• Offer amounts for both remote and in office roles are influenced by geographic location.

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