Staff Full Stack Software Developer, React

Description

• Join our mission to transform pharmacy benefits and healthcare navigation as a Staff Full Stack Engineer with a strong frontend focus.

• You will help set the technical direction for our web application platform, lead team initiatives, and deliver exceptional user experiences built on React and Next.js. You’ll own critical experiences end-to-end—from frontend architecture and performance to the backend-for-frontend (BFF) and API contracts—while mentoring engineers, partnering with Product and Design, and raising the bar on quality, reliability, and developer experience.

• Co-own frontend/Next.js architecture and standards across teams

• Lead delivery of complex features end-to-end (frontend + BFF)

• Define SSR/SSG/ISR, Server Components, routing, caching, CDN/edge

• Drive performance and accessibility (Core Web Vitals, WCAG AA)

• Improve developer experience: testing, CI/CD, monorepo, Storybook

• Shape requirements with Product/Design; de-risk and scope work

• Mentor engineers; lead design reviews, RFCs, and architecture docs

• Uphold operational excellence: readiness, on-call, incidents, SLOs

• Enforce security and compliance (OWASP, CSP, OAuth/OIDC, PHI)

• Contribute to long-term platform strategy and migrations

Requirements

• 10+ years building large-scale web apps; Staff-level impact

• Expert in Javascript, React and TypeScript; deep Next.js (App Router, RSC, SSR/SSG/ISR, middleware, edge)

• Strong Node.js/BFF; solid API design (REST/GraphQL) and typed clients

• Python experience is a plus

• Frontend performance: code-splitting, caching, RUM, image/bundle optimizations

• UI architecture/state: Nuqs, CSS Modules/Tailwind; design systems

• Testing: Jest/Vitest, RTL, Playwright/Cypress; strong CI/CD

• Cloud experience (AWS/Vercel); serverless; IaC a plus

• Data and caching: Postgres, Redis; Elasticsearch a plus

• Observability: Sentry/Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logging/alerts

• Security-first mindset: OWASP, CSP, CSRF/XSS, OAuth/OIDC

• Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership

• Bonus: experimentation/feature flags, analytics, i18n, monorepos, healthcare/HIPAA

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