Lead Software Engineer

Job description

ABOUT MEDICIRCLE MediCircle is building the national infrastructure to make prescription drugs affordable. Today, billions of dollars of perfectly usable medications go unused, while patients are forced to skip or abandon life-saving treatments due to cost. We exist to change that. MediCircle reclaims unused medications, recertifies their quality using our patented process, and redistributes them through our licensed pharmacy. In doing so, we provide patients with medications at zero out-of-pocket cost, while generating savings for our payer, plan sponsor, and value-based care clients. We are a VC-backed, early-stage healthcare technology company with a proven model and accelerating growth: - $45M+ in medications reclaimed to date - Active partnerships with market-leading customers, including national VBCs, PBMs, and regional health systems. - Rapidly expanding demand across enterprise and government channels If our mission resonates with you, you are interested in joining a high-growth healthcare company, and you are energized by directly impacting the lives of millions of patients who can no longer access or afford their medications, we would love to hear from you. ROLE OVERVIEW You will partner side by side with MediCircle’s Head of Technology to architect and scale the technical foundation powering our national medication redistribution platform. As MediCircle’s second engineer, you will own end-to-end product development, taking ownership of system architecture and backend development while remaining hands-on across the full stack. You will design the core services, data models, infrastructure, and workflows that power complex pharmacy and patient operations in a highly regulated environment. Beyond writing code, you will play a foundational role in defining MediCircle’s product roadmap and long-term technical strategy. You will also help identify and implement emerging technologies, such as AI-driven tools and automation, that improve system performance, development velocity, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate thrives on ownership, can operate across the full software stack, ships quickly without sacrificing quality, enjoys translating complex operational challenges into user-centric software, and takes pride in building systems that are elegant, durable, and capable of operating at national scale. RESPONSIBILITIES - Architecture & Backend Ownership: Lead the design and evolution of MediCircle’s backend architecture and core infrastructure. Build systems that remain reliable, secure, and compliant as the platform scales nationally. - Full Stack Product Development: Build and ship end-to-end features across backend and frontend systems. Work primarily in Python/Django on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend. - AI-Native Engineering: Evaluate and integrate AI tools and workflows into development processes and product capabilities to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, or product functionality - Infrastructure & DevOps: Design and maintain deployment pipelines, infrastructure, and observability tools. Ensure high availability, system reliability, and data integrity across production systems. Troubleshoot production issues quickly and methodically - Product & Systems Thinking: Collaborate across teams to build user-centric, scalable systems that account for compliance, auditability, and data integrity requirements - Engineering Leadership: Help shape MediCircle’s engineering culture and standards as the team grows. Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and mentoring while helping build practices that support a high-performing, mission-driven team. REQUIREMENTS - Builder DNA: You have built and scaled real systems from scratch — APIs, data models, backend services, and production infrastructure - Architecture & Backend Expertise: Strong experience designing backend systems and scalable architectures - AI Fluency: Actively stay on top of emerging AI technologies and how they can improve engineering productivity or product capabilities - Full Stack Ownership: Proficient across the stack, ideally including: Python (Django preferred), TypeScript / React, and REST APIs - Product-Minded Engineer: You think beyond code and deeply care about how software impacts real users. You design systems with usability, reliability, and operational realities in mind - Execution Engine: You can take loosely defined problems and turn them into shipped production systems. You move quickly while maintaining strong engineering discipline - Software development experience: You have at least two years of experience in a software development role - Leadership Experience: Experience leading technical projects or managing engineering teams. You’ve helped take a product from 0 → scale - DevOps Fluency: Comfortable owning the full deployment lifecycle - CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK preferred), and production observability. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - You have healthcare/pharmacy exposure and familiarity with regulated ops (clinical, pharmacy, payer/PBM, or analogous); if not, you have previously worked and/or currently work in regulated or compliance-heavy environments - You have early-stage startup experience or similar experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments