About Capital Rx
Capital Rx is a health technology company providing claim administration and technology solutions for carriers, health plans, TPAs, employer groups, and government entities. As a public benefit corporation, Capital Rx is executing its mission to materially reduce healthcare costs as a full-service PBM and through the deployment of Judi®, the company’s cloud-native enterprise health platform. Judi connects every aspect of the healthcare ecosystem in one efficient, scalable platform, servicing millions of members for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans. Together with its clients, Capital Rx is reimagining the administration of benefits and rebuilding trust in healthcare.
Location: Hybrid (Local to NYC area)
About the team
The Platform team at Capital Rx is made up of a set of passionate, motivated, and driven individuals who are not only experts in technologies but are great problems solvers and brings high energy and inspiration every day. The team always works a sense of ownership and urgency delivering highest quality of work ensuring seamless operations and fostering collaboration across the software engineering department. We own the architecture, framework & standards, infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines which development teams utilize to deliver code to Captial Rx’s Judi® platform. The team is also responsible for the production environment which requires knowledge with monitoring, alerting and on-call practices. The Platform team performs many functions whether that is tactical operations, providing general solutions for the enterprise or giving guidance or recommendations for individual product teams.
Position Summary:
We are a rapidly growing late-stage health tech company helping millions of lives through our innovative product Judi. We’re seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Platform Developer II to join our platform team. This pivotal role will be instrumental in building, scaling, and maintain the robust and secure infrastructure that powers our mission-critical platform.
You will be a force multiplier, enabling our development teams to deliver features faster and more reliably. You will champion infrastructure-as-code principles, contribute code to platform scalability, drive automation across the entire software development lifecycle, and ensure our platform meets the highest standards of scalability, performance, and security.
Position Responsibilities:
- Architect, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure platform & infrastructure
- Develop and maintain robust automation pipelines for continuous delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure provisioning tools like GoCD, Harness, and Terraform
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested Python code for automation, tooling and service development.
- Manage and optimize relational or in-memory databases, including PostgreSQL, Redshift and Redis, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity.
- Administer and finetune container orchestration platforms such EKS and ECS.
- Implement and manage serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda for various platform functionalities.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements and best practices.
- Lead efforts in defining and enforcing security best practices across the platform, including adherence to HIPAA standards, FISMA, SOC II, and FedRAMP compliance standards.
- Monitor systems performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to ensure optimal operation and scalability.
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide operational support and incident response.
- Champion Agile/Scrum methodologies, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency.
- Develop internal tooling and automation scripts using Python and work with SQL to support operational workflows.
- Implement observability (monitoring/logging/alerting) best practices for highly available SaaS services.
- Responsible for adherence to the Capital Rx Code of Conduct including reporting of noncompliance.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
- Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, IAM, Kinesis
- Excellent proficiency with Terraform, Python, SQL, and automation tooling.
- Extensive experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with SQL, database administration (PostgreSQL preferred), and performance tuning
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GoCD, GitHub Actions, Harness).
- Proven experience in automating Observability & Monitoring (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus), standardizing incident response for alerts to maintain SLAs and SLOs
- Hands-on experience in environments compliant with FISMA, SOC 2, and/or FedRAMP.
- Background in building highly scalable, performant SaaS platforms.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, IT security & compliance, product manager, and scrum masters.
- Strong experience in production on call rotations and responding to alerts.
This position description is designed to be flexible, allowing management the opportunity to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as needed to best meet organizational goals.
This position description is designed to be flexible, allowing management the opportunity to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as needed to best meet organizational goals.
Capital Rx values a diverse workplace and celebrates the diversity that each employee brings to the table. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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