As a fullstack software engineer, you will join a team that is working to improve patients’ lives through a better pharmacy experience. This team owns the services that manage all of prescription processing from intake up to the moment we send an order to our pharmacies for fulfillment, as well as integrations with key partners in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry.

The key focus areas include:
Preparing prescriptions for fulfillment and delivery as quickly and accurately as possible through a combination of automation and efficient manual task coordination when third party input is required to advance a fill.

Enabling the growth of the business by enabling partners like drug manufacturers, insurers, and individual providers to easily configure billing, benefits, and clinical workflows tailored to their use cases.


Example Projects:
Increase Alto’s intake automation rate by leveraging LLMs to parse unstructured data from prescriptions.
Accelerate pharmacist workflows by integrating controlled substance dispensing history and risk scores into our pre-dispense clinical safety and review step.
Optimize the selection of which drug to dispense to find patients the best price.

Job Description
 

Accelerate Your Career as You

• Advance Alto’s automation and workflow orchestration systems to improve system throughput and accuracy

• Establish the foundations for an extensible pharmacy operations platform to fuel business growth

• Tackle complex technical and domain problems at the intersection of healthcare and e-commerce

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years of software engineering experience in a production environment

• Expertise in architecting complex systems for long-term maintainability, performance, and scalability

• Proven commitment to technical best practices, including code style, documentation, code review, bug fixing, and production issue mitigation

• Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience collaborating with cross functional partners to deliver exceptional products

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Proficiency in Alto's tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, React, React Native

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment and maintain a growth mindset

• A pragmatic approach to problem solving that’s biased towards impact

• A strong sense of ownership over your work and a desire to uplevel your peers

Additional Information
 

Additional Physical Job Requirements

• Read English, comprehend, and follow simple oral and written instructions.  The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.  Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.

• Communicating with others to exchange information.  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.

• Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

• Sedentary work: Sitting most of the time, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $124,000-$156,000

Commission Eligible: No

Equity Eligible: Yes

Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time for engineering onsites or off-sites.

Location Requirement: Employment at Alto is limited to individuals residing in the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (WA), and Wisconsin.

Employment Authorization Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. At this time, Alto is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Benefits: Full-time employee benefits include: Multiple group medical, dental and vision plans to choose from, 401(k) plan, group life, AD&D, FSA/HSA, employer paid STD/LTD, Take-What-You-Need vacation time, accrued paid sick time, 11 paid holidays (7 for Pharmacy and Care teams), 8 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees.
Application Deadline: 4/4/2025

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Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation during any portion of the application or hiring process, please contact us at CandidateHelp@alto.com.

Alto Pharmacy considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment and conducts background checks consistent with applicable law, including the California, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, and New York City Fair Chance laws. We are an E-Verify participating company.

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Salary : $124,000 - $156,000