Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

About Empower Pharmacy

Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the nation’s most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we’re redefining what’s possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing. We’re proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.

Our strength is built on four core values: People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we’ve created a uniquely integrated healthcare platform powered by advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless commitment to patient care. From manufacturing and quality control to distribution and customer experience, our teams work together to raise industry standards, expand access to critical medications, and improve outcomes for patients and providers across the country.

At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new role. It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that’s transforming healthcare at scale. We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level. Your ideas matter here, your development is supported, and the work you do has a direct impact on the lives of millions.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment where innovation, collaboration, and ambition come together, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s transform healthcare together.

Position Summary

This role delivers high-impact full stack engineering across critical platforms powering Empower’s hyper-growth in a highly regulated 503A/503B pharmacy environment. The Staff Software Engineer owns end-to-end feature development, system reliability, and performance optimization, leveraging AI to accelerate development speed, enhance code quality, and improve decision-making. This position operates across frontend, backend, and data layers, ensuring scalable, compliant, and secure solutions.

Responsibilities

Software Development

• Feature Delivery: Design, build, and deploy full stack features across frontend and backend systems, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with regulatory and business requirements.
• Code Quality: Write clean, testable, and efficient code using modern frameworks and AI-driven code review tools, maintaining high standards for performance, security, and reliability within a regulated and fast-scaling environment.
• System Integration: Develop and maintain APIs, services, and integrations across internal and external systems, ensuring seamless data flow, high availability, and compliance with security and regulatory standards.

System Performance

• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application layers using monitoring tools and AI-driven insights, ensuring systems meet speed, scalability, and reliability expectations under increasing operational demand.
• Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot production issues rapidly, applying structured debugging approaches and AI-assisted diagnostics to minimize downtime and maintain continuity in critical business operations.
• Reliability Engineering: Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to proactively detect issues, improve system stability, and support consistent uptime in a high-availability environment.

Collaboration Execution

• Cross Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and regulatory constraints while maintaining high development velocity.
• Agile Delivery: Participate in agile ceremonies, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, while continuously improving team efficiency and delivery outcomes using data and AI insights.
• Documentation Practices: Maintain clear and accurate technical documentation, ensuring knowledge sharing, system transparency, and compliance readiness across engineering and cross-functional teams.

Knowledge and Skills

• Expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, and microservices design at enterprise scale.
• Strong proficiency in frontend technologies including React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript within production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Springboot, Node.js, and Python within production environments.
• Strong proficiency in GraphQL and/or Node.js-based development for distributed platform integration.
• Deep understanding of performance optimization, system reliability, and observability practices.
• Ability to design systems that meet regulatory, security, and data integrity requirements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience, with demonstrated ability to deliver full stack solutions in production environments.
• 10+ years of experience in full stack development, including frontend frameworks, backend services, and database management, with a strong track record of shipping scalable, high-quality applications.
• Experience working in agile development environments, contributing to iterative delivery, continuous integration, and deployment practices while maintaining high standards for code quality and system reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve coding efficiency, testing, and debugging, with a mindset focused on continuous learning, performance improvement, and technical excellence.

Key Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
• Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
• Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
• Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.

Values:

• People: Empowering people defines who we are.
• Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
• Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
• Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.

Employee Benefits, Health and Wellness:

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/

Physical Requirements:

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Key skills/competency

• Full Stack Development
• AI-Assisted Development
• Distributed Systems
• Microservices
• Frontend Development (React, Next.js, TypeScript)
• Backend Development (Java, Springboot, Node.js, Python)
• GraphQL
• System Reliability
• Performance Optimization
• Agile Methodologies