Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Pharma Platforms

Empower Pharmacy; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision coverage

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Wellness perks

IV therapy

Compounded medications

Job summary

Empower Pharmacy in Houston is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems powering pharmacy operations, manufacturing, logistics, and compliance across its 503A/503B environment.

You will contribute to system design, architecture, and leadership, delivering reliable platforms while applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and ensure regulatory adherence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering backend features independently.
• Proven track record of production-grade backend systems that are performant, reliable, and maintainable.
• Experience contributing to technical direction and mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience in regulated industries requiring auditability, data traceability, and compliance-aware system design.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend systems within pharmacy operations, manufacturing, and logistics domains; use AI-assisted tools to model dependencies.
• Apply architectural standards and participate in design reviews to reduce systemic risk in Empower’s highly regulated 503A/503B environment.
• Implement and maintain integrations across internal services and external regulatory systems using canonical data contracts and API versioning protocols; leverage AI tooling to detect integration drift and accelerate service onboarding.
• Build high-throughput, low-latency backend systems for large-scale pharmacy and logistics workloads; apply AI-augmented capacity planning to maintain performance under peak demand without over-provisioning infrastructure.
• Implement fault-tolerant systems with observability layers—distributed tracing, structured logging, and anomaly detection that surface degradation early; collaborate with SRE teams to support incident response and reduce recovery time.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; contribute to shared platform capabilities—CI/CD pipelines, reusable libraries, infrastructure-as-code—and promote AI-powered tooling to improve efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Microservices design

Java / Spring Boot

GraphQL

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Empower Pharmacy in Houston is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems powering pharmacy operations, manufacturing, logistics, and compliance across its 503A/503B environment.

You will contribute to system design, architecture, and leadership, delivering reliable platforms while applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and ensure regulatory adherence.