Senior Software Engineer
Blink Health
- Location
- United States
- Job Type
- full-time
- Salary
- Unknown
- Posted
- November 16, 2025
Job Description
Company Overview:
Blink Health is the fastest growing healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody. Our two primary products – BlinkRx and Quick Save – remove traditional roadblocks within the current prescription supply chain, resulting in better access to critical medications and improved health outcomes for patients.
BlinkRx is the world’s first pharma-to-patient cloud that offers a digital concierge service for patients who are prescribed branded medications. Patients benefit from transparent low prices, free home delivery, and world-class support on this first-of-its-kind centralized platform. With BlinkRx, never again will a patient show up at the pharmacy only to discover that they can’t afford their medication, their doctor needs to fill out a form for them, or the pharmacy doesn’t have the medication in stock.
We are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer II at Blink, you’ll take on some of our most critical technical challenges and deliver high-impact solutions that shape the future of our products and platforms. You’ll lead the design and execution of initiatives that often span multiple teams, ensuring millions of customers have seamless, affordable access to prescription medications.
You’ll work hands-on to build scalable, reliable systems while also influencing technical strategy, mentoring engineers across the team, and partnering closely with product, design, data, and operations to accelerate Blink’s growth.
We believe in pragmatic engineering using trusted tools like AWS, Python, JavaScript, MySQL/Postgres, and Linux. We value simplicity, bias for action, and a deep focus on customer impact. As a Senior Software Engineer II, you’ll be both a builder and a leader raising the bar for technical excellence and helping drive Blink forward.
Role Success
You are an engineer who thrives on solving some of the most complex and meaningful challenges in healthcare. You have a track record of delivering technical solutions that span multiple teams and systems, and you’re excited to build products that give our customers the best possible experience purchasing prescription medications.
We believe in using a small number of well-known tools like AWS, Python, Javascript, MySQL, and Linux. We are looking for Senior Engineer II candidates who value simplicity, pragmatism, and impact — engineers who not only write code, but also take on broad ownership, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor others to raise the bar.
Senior Engineers II at Blink take ownership of our hardest, most strategic problems. Your job is to envision and refine solutions that scale across teams, set high standards for engineering excellence, and execute with autonomy and accountability.
You will collaborate closely with talented cross-functional teams — designers, product managers, data scientists, marketers, and operators — as well as across multiple engineering groups. Through these partnerships, you’ll shape technical direction, grow our business, and above all, ensure that our customers have access to the least expensive and highest satisfaction pharmacy experience on earth.
At Blink, we determine the specific focus of engineering roles through the interview process. Key potential areas of ownership include: our telemedicine platform; our home delivery experience; our growth systems; our core pharmacy platform; and new product line development. We’ll work with you to find the right fit.
Key Focus Areas:
You’ll own one or more strategic initiatives, which may include:
- Our telemedicine platform
- The home delivery experience
- Growth experimentation and personalization
- Core pharmacy infrastructure
- Development of entirely new product lines
What You’ll Do
Technical Leadership & Execution
- Design and evolve backend and frontend architecture for scalable, high-performance systems
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
- Lead code reviews and promote engineering best practices
- Investigate and resolve complex performance or reliability issues
- Drive the release of new features end-to-end with testing, documentation, and monitoring
Team Development & Mentorship
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to senior and junior engineers
- Help shape our engineering culture by modeling ownership, curiosity, and high standards
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment between engineering, product, and business
Innovation & Learning
- Stay ahead of industry trends, tools, and technologies—and bring them back to the team
- Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ideas with a learning mindset
- Champion experimentation and data-driven decision making
Communication & Feedback
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Give and receive feedback with empathy and honesty
- Build trust within and across teams to unlock high-impact collaboration
What We Are Looking For
- Minimum of 7+ years in a software engineering role, with significant experience driving initiatives that span multiple teams or systems.
- Strong system design and architecture expertise, especially in distributed or large-scale platforms.
- Experience owning projects or domains from design through delivery and ongoing evolution.
- Proven ability to mentor other engineers and improve team performance.
- Comfortable influencing technical direction and building consensus among multiple stakeholders.
- Collaborative and communicative — a Class-A communicator who simplifies complexity, builds alignment, and drives clarity.
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree preferred but not required.
Why Join Us:
It is rare to have a company that both deeply impacts its customers and is able to provide its services across a massive population. At Blink, we have a huge impact on people when they are most vulnerable: at the intersection of their healthcare and finances. We are also the fastest growing healthcare company in the country and are driving that impact across millions of new patients every year. Our business model not only helps people, but drives economics that allow us to build a generational company. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious, and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
π― Who is this job for?
This role is ideal for a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience, strong in Python, JavaScript, and AWS, and confident leading complex, cross-team projects. Candidates should have deep system design skills, experience with distributed systems, and the ability to mentor others while influencing technical direction. Best suited for those who thrive in high-impact, fast-paced environments and want to build scalable healthcare products that improve patient access and outcomes.
π¬ Potential Interview Questions
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Can you describe your experience designing and scaling distributed systems?
I’ve led the architecture of distributed systems using AWS services (like SQS, Lambda, and EC2) with Python and PostgreSQL, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and performance for high-traffic APIs. -
Which backend technologies are you most comfortable with, and why?
I’m strongest in Python due to its flexibility and extensive ecosystem. I’ve used Django and Flask extensively and have built scalable microservices with clear API contracts. -
How do you ensure code quality and maintainability across a growing engineering team?
Through clear coding standards, automated testing (unit/integration), code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing thorough documentation practices. -
Tell us about a cross-team technical initiative you led. What was the outcome?
I spearheaded a platform refactor for user authentication across 3 teams, integrating a new OAuth2-based system. It improved login reliability and reduced auth-related support tickets by 40%. -
How do you handle trade-offs between speed of delivery and technical quality?
I assess the long-term cost of technical debt vs. the business value of quick delivery. I push for MVPs with a clear plan for follow-ups and communicate risks transparently. -
What’s your experience mentoring junior or mid-level engineers?
I conduct weekly one-on-ones, code pairing, and design walkthroughs to help teammates improve technical and communication skills, creating structured growth plans when needed. -
How do you approach debugging complex system issues in production?
I analyze logs (CloudWatch, Datadog), trace distributed requests, check monitoring dashboards, reproduce issues in staging, and write post-mortems to document and prevent regressions. -
Describe your involvement with frontend technologies.
While primarily a backend engineer, I’ve contributed to frontend features using React and Typescript, especially in full-stack projects where seamless API integration is critical. -
How do you stay updated with new technologies and trends in software engineering?
I regularly read engineering blogs, follow open-source projects, attend meetups/webinars, and experiment with new tools via personal side projects or prototypes. -
Why are you interested in Blink Health and this Senior Software Engineer II role?
Blink Health’s mission to make prescriptions more accessible resonates deeply with me. I’m excited to solve complex challenges in healthcare while leading impactful technical initiatives.
π Job Summary
Blink Health is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II (onsite in NYC) to lead cross-functional, high-impact initiatives across their healthcare platform. You’ll design scalable systems using Python, JavaScript, AWS, and PostgreSQL, while mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and delivering features that improve access to prescription medications. With a salary up to $220K+, this is a chance to influence product direction and help build the future of digital pharmacy at one of the fastest-growing health tech companies.