Senior Engineer, Infrastructure
Blink Health is a well-funded healthcare technology company on a mission to make prescription drugs more accessible and affordable for everyone. We're scaling up in a highly complex vertical to change the way Americans access the prescription drugs they need.
Our proprietary platform and supply chain allows us to offer everyone — whether they have insurance or not — amazingly inexpensive prices on over 15,000 medications, in partnership with providers and pharmacies. With telemedicine and home delivery for prescriptions, Blink is providing a life-changing experience for people all over the country and fixing how opaque, unfair and overpriced healthcare has become. 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!
Success:
- You are an engineer who, above all, is excited to design and build infrastructure that powers our ability to give customers the best possible experience purchasing prescription medications
- You have demonstrated experience working on a team turning ideas into reliable, maintainable code
- You dive deep to diagnose and fix critical issues in high pressure situations
- You believe in automation over manual process, and have a track record of automating complex, repetitive, manual tasks
- You have a passion for optimization and least cost solutions. As a startup, we need to run lean and this requires optimal solutions at the best cost
- You welcome feedback from your peers and work best in a collaborative environment
How to achieve success:
- You believe in humans first, making a difference and doing the right thing for our customers, every day
- You dive deep into what is happening, why, and seek to identify not just the easiest answer, but the best answer
- You work well in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task and switch priorities quickly
- You have a strong sense of ownership and want to build tools that leverage cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
- We believe in using a small number of well-known tools like AWS, Python, Javascript, MySQL, and Linux. We are looking for engineers that value simplicity, pragmatism, have a bias towards action, and are passionate about building products that bring real value to our customers
Desired experience:
- 5+ years experience having worked in an Infrastructure, Devops, or SRE engineering role
- Experience in building, deploying and maintaining production applications on cloud based platforms
- Experience with some common tools and technologies we use: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, Redshift, Aurora, Linux, Docker, Ansible etc.
- Experience integrating and building tools to support continuous deployment and management of cloud based applications
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code development, and driving infrastructure initiatives across the engineering organization
- Scripting in Bash, Python, Shell, etc.
- Demonstrated increasing experience with one or more modern programming languages
- Proven ability to dive into a large code base and contribute immediately
- A history of writing code that is understandable, maintainable, and testable
- Experience designing scalable APIs and guiding architectural decisions for scale and stability for an organization
- Experience in a 24x7 production environment, tracking the health of services, and troubleshooting issues
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience
Why Join Us:
At Blink, we put humans first. We want everyone at Blink to be able to do the best work of their lives. 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.