Alto Pharmacy is a full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy that makes it simple to live your healthiest life by providing an easier, more supportive and more affordable pharmacy experience. We’re redefining what a pharmacy can do, with fast and reliable prescription delivery, tools like treatment reminders and medication bundling, direct access to care specialists, and support with insurance and cost savings. By focusing on the person behind the prescription, our model boosts adherence, improves health outcomes, and keeps our customers returning month after month. Learn more at www.alto.com.

We are seeking a forward thinking and diligent Senior Manager of Software Engineering with a deep understanding of building scalable applications with loosely coupled Services. This key role will lead multiple engineering teams across the technology stack, driving innovation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions fast. The ideal candidate will possess experience in high volume, high throughput applications, along with exceptional leadership skills to inspire and guide our talented engineering teams. Pharmacy and Supply Chain experience is preferred, while not required.

Accelerate Your Career as You

  • Create technology strategy for your scope, set the roadmap, and drive fast iterative launches with incremental customer value.
  • Own the development and implementation of software solutions across the full stack of the applications - UI and backend Services, on the Cloud, and on the edge devices.
  • Experience building and externalizing APIs for high volume, bi-directional transactions.
  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance, support, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including customer, partner, product, design, and operations to deliver impactful solutions that meet business objectives.
  • Set clear goals and priorities to accelerate the product development and drive business growth with clear customer value.
  • Champion best practices in software engineering, including code quality, and scalability, while continuously improving development mechanisms.
  • Ensure adherence to regulatory standards and compliance requirements in the pharmaceutical industry.

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on building scalable loosely coupled Services with low latency data stores.
  • Proven track record of at least 10 years in leadership roles, managing and scaling engineering teams.
  • Extensive experience with modern programming languages preferably React, React Native, Ruby, Go, Python, or similar technologies.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment in a high-growth technology or technology enabled company.
  • Experience productionizing AI/ML models and building proof of concepts leveraging developing technologies.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to drive innovation and lead change in a dynamic environment.
  • Passion for healthcare technology and a commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience building and scaling performant and high volume mobile applications.
  • Experience building and scaling inventory, supply chain, procurement applications.
  • Strong understanding of pharmacy operations, workflows, and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience with API management systems such as Apigee and GraphQL.
  • Experience in building and scaling healthcare or telemedicine platforms.
  • Advanced certifications or training in pharmacy or healthcare analytics.
  • Experience with Supply Chain, Inventory Management, and Procurement systems.

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.
  • Physical Activities: 
    • Occasionally ascending or descending stairs, ramps and the like.
    • Moving about to accomplish tasks and/or moving from one worksite to another. 
    • Adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds in all directions. 
    • Operating motor vehicles.
    • Occasional sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing/driving/flying

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $176,000 - $220,000

Commission Eligible: No

Equity Eligible: Yes

Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time  

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

Employment 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: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Group Life, AD&D, Employer paid STD/LTD, generous PTO and parental leave.  

Application deadline: September 15, 2024


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Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. 

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company.

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