Virtual New Grad Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Who We Are:

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company. Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service. With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

• Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
• Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
• Together: The success of SmithRx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team. Our shared values bind us together and make us one. When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise.

Job Summary:

The engineering team at SmithRx is developing a next-generation pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform that is changing how companies administer and manage pharmacy benefits. Our unified technology platform provides real-time, actionable insights that drive cost savings, power clinical services, and result in a brilliant customer experience. A unified technology platform of this caliber does not exist elsewhere in the pharmacy benefit ecosystem to programmatically solve widespread deficiencies. The result is a PBM delivering unmatched service quality and operational efficiencies that exceed all industry standards.

This role is part of the Platform team, which owns and operates our backend data for managing first-party (1P) and third-party (3P) drug data. You will play a key role in the entire engineering lifecycle—from coding and build to testing and maintaining our SmithRx product suite. You will contribute to best practices, coding standards. We need our engineers to be versatile and driven, display leadership and ownership qualities, and be enthusiastic about taking on new challenges across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

What you will do:

• Full-Stack Development: Focus on our back-end and front-end codebase to develop and maintain SmithRx product features using Golang, GraphQL, SQL, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, and Java.
• Bridge the Stochastic/Deterministic Gap: Architect and implement robust "safety rails" surrounding LLMs by developing deterministic software that manages, validates, and encapsulates the stochastic nature of AI models, ensuring the high-precision accuracy required for healthcare data.
• Implement Context-aware systems: Help design and build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and stateful orchestration logic to integrate data sources with LLMs, enabling development of complex, multi-step agentic workflows.
• Collaborate: Work with technical leads to understand functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software.
• Learn and Apply Best Practices: Study and apply software development best practices, design patterns, and modern tools across every project.
• Extend the Platform: Leverage frameworks such as GraphQL, React, and GORM to expand the capabilities of our platform.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Learn to effectively use AWS technologies at production scale, including Lambda and Fargate, to handle various job types and batch processing.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure code is fully tested end-to-end, maintains high code coverage, and that all features are thoroughly documented.
• Production Support: Quickly learn to troubleshoot production issues by performing triage, assessing impact, executing mitigation plans, and performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Culture of Learning: Contribute to a collaborative culture through code reviews and the exploration of new technologies.
• AI Innovation: Actively seek out and share new AI tools and technologies to improve software delivery speed and quality.

What you will bring to SmithRx:

• Education: BS in Computer Science and 1 year of experience or a MS in Computer Science.
• Background: Besides education, participation in coding competitions or fully released independent projects, internship experience related to AI is a plus.
• Technical Knowledge: Experience with a compiled language such as Go, Java, C#, or C++ (Go experience is a strong plus).
• AI/ML: Solid ML/AI concepts, knowledge and relevant coursework, experience using GenAI tools to build AI-native high-quality, production-ready software is a plus; an understanding of the pitfalls and limitations of AI is a must.
• Database Fundamentals: Ability to write effective and efficient queries with relational databases (specifically PostgreSQL), including basic schema design.
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with Agentic Frameworks, MCP, LLM APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI) and basic Prompt Engineering Evals
• API Design: A solid grasp of the fundamentals of designing and implementing scalable APIs, along with an understanding of design patterns and testing best practices.
• Cloud & DevOps: A basic understanding of GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Soft Skills: A positive, non-dogmatic, team-first attitude with the flexibility to navigate ambiguity.

What SmithRx Offers You:

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Spending Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Discretionary Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Wellness Benefits
• Commuter Benefits
• Paid Parental Leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
• Professional development and training opportunities