Junior Full-Stack Engineer

House Rx

Location
United States
Job Type
full-time
Salary
$95,000-$110,000
Posted
June 6, 2025

Job Description

At House Rx, we're driven by something special: making specialty medications more accessible and affordable. Our 25+ person product, design, and engineering (PDE) team, part of our broader 125+ person company, creates technology that helps patients access the life-saving drugs they need. We bring our hearts and minds to this meaningful work, fostering a caring, dedicated, and supportive environment.

About The Role 

We're seeking an ambitious, early-career Full-Stack Engineer to make meaningful contributions and rapidly accelerate their growth within our PDE team. You'll learn directly from experienced engineers in a supportive, fast-paced, collaborative environment, working on our mission-driven pharmacy management system (NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, AWS, Postgres). A strong growth mindset, eagerness to learn, keen attention to detail, and enthusiasm to get things done are key to thriving here.

What You’ll Do

  • Contribute & Learn: Write reliable, well-tested code for impactful features under senior guidance, quickly mastering our tech stack and best practices.
  • Collaborate: Actively participate in code reviews, team discussions (on developer experience, architecture, new tools), and work closely with product managers, QA, and designers.
  • Grow: Embrace mentorship and seek opportunities to enhance your skills/understanding.

About You 

You're an enthusiastic, ambitious, kind engineer eager to learn and build software that makes a difference.

  • Learning Agility: Possess a strong growth mindset, receptive to feedback, and keen to take initiative in your learning and contributions. You view software development as a craft.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Proactive and clear communicator, verbally and through writing where you’re comfortable asking thoughtful questions and seeking guidance.
  • Problem-Solving & Drive: Curious, analytical, detail-oriented, adaptable in finding solutions.
  • Technical Foundation:
    • Solid software development knowledge and problem-solving skills, demonstrated through a CS degree, bootcamp, impressive personal projects, or relevant career transition experience.
    • Understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and exposure to frontend frameworks (React).
    • Eagerness to learn backend concepts, API design, and relational databases (Node/Postgres).

Why You’ll Grow With Us

  • Mentorship & Rapid Learning: Accelerate your growth with guidance from experienced engineers.
  • Impactful Work: Build technology that directly helps patients.
  • Agency & Ownership: We provide opportunities to make a direct impact, accelerated by your drive.
  • Vibrant & Supportive Culture: Join a fun, thoughtful, and collaborative remote-first team.

In particular, we offer:

  • Flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
  • Generous parental leave
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision and dental benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity stake

We’re backed by forward-thinking investors committed to transforming healthcare, including Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, LRV Health, Khosla Ventures, Maverick Ventures, 1984.vc, and Character.

While a cover letter is optional, a note sharing your enthusiasm for House Rx and this role is highly insightful.

Expected Full-Time Base Salary:  $95,000-$110,000

This range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary/wage. The actual base salary/wage will depend on several factors, including experience, knowledge, and skills. Actual compensation packages may include other elements equity, paid time off and benefits.

More About House Rx: Our Team, Work, and Culture

Here's our amazing PDE team that builds healthcare technology that matters:

  • Software Engineering: 10 engineers+ from early career to staff/architect level
  • Product & Design: 3 product managers, 2 designers
  • Infrastructure: 2 IT specialists, 2 security engineers, 3 SREs
  • Quality & Support: 3 QA engineers, 2 support specialists

Together, we build and maintain impactful solutions through our pharmacy management system and data insights platform. These tools enable our internal teams, pharmacists, care coordinators, and clinical operations, to streamline medication access, while helping external healthcare providers and clinics deliver better patient care.

πŸ’» Our engineering work presents exciting technical challenges as we balance user-facing features with robust internal systems. We release updates daily, requiring thoughtful prioritization and technical excellence while maintaining high quality. This iterative approach means we're constantly innovating to deliver meaningful improvements to our healthcare platform.

🌎 We're a fully remote team, with our talented people spread across New York, Boston, San Francisco, and throughout the U.S. While we embrace the flexibility of remote work, we're passionate about strengthening connections through our bi-annual retreats, both company-wide and PDE-specific, where we plan, grow, and celebrate our successes together. Local team members enjoy getting together for co-working and social events, creating bonds that go beyond the workplace.

πŸŽ‰ Our culture brings thoughtfulness to our daily work. You'll find us expressing ourselves through our extensive Slack emoji and GIF collection (seriously, it's impressive!), sharing gratitude circles on birthdays, and having conversations that range from foodie recommendations to discussions about AI tooling, developer experience, and architecture. While we take our mission seriously, we believe enjoying what you do and technical excellence go hand in hand.

We're a fun, thoughtful, supportive, talented, and down-to-earth group focused on doing some of the best work of our lives. At the end of the day, we know software is built by people – and we're committed to taking care of both the people we work with and the patients whose lives we touch through our technology. We’re growing our team. There's no one else in the world like you, and hope you can join us for this ride! πŸš€

🎯 Who is this job for?

This role is perfect for an ambitious Junior Full-Stack Engineer with foundational knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and relational databases (Postgres). Candidates should be eager to learn, collaborate closely with senior engineers, and contribute to a mission-driven healthcare tech platform. Strong communication, growth mindset, and willingness to work in a remote, supportive environment are essential.

πŸ’¬ Potential Interview Questions

  1. How do you approach learning and contributing to a full-stack codebase as a junior engineer?
    Start by understanding core technologies (Node.js, React, TypeScript), follow coding standards, seek mentorship actively, write small, testable features, and participate in code reviews.

  2. What are best practices for writing reliable, well-tested code in a healthcare domain?
    Write unit and integration tests, validate inputs rigorously, handle errors gracefully, maintain clear documentation, and adhere to security and compliance standards like HIPAA.

  3. How do you collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and QA in a remote-first environment?
    Communicate proactively via Slack/meetings, clarify requirements, ask questions early, participate in agile ceremonies, and document progress and blockers clearly.

  4. What foundational concepts in API design and relational databases should you focus on mastering?
    Understand RESTful principles, CRUD operations, authentication, and authorization; learn SQL querying, indexing, normalization, and database transactions.

  5. How do you manage your growth mindset and take initiative in a fast-paced engineering team?
    Seek feedback regularly, set learning goals, volunteer for tasks, study new tools and patterns, and embrace challenges as opportunities to improve.

  6. What techniques help you write clean, readable, and maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript code?
    Follow consistent style guides, use meaningful naming, modularize code, leverage TypeScript types for safety, and write comments where necessary.

  7. How do you ensure frontend features built with React are responsive and user-friendly?
    Use reusable components, manage state effectively, test UI across devices, and collaborate with designers to meet accessibility standards.

  8. How do you debug and troubleshoot issues in a full-stack application?
    Use browser dev tools, backend logging, step through code with debuggers, replicate issues locally, and collaborate with teammates for root cause analysis.

  9. What role does automated testing play in delivering high-quality software?
    Automated tests catch regressions early, ensure code correctness, speed up feedback loops, and provide documentation of expected behaviors.

  10. How do you balance delivering features quickly with writing quality code as a junior engineer?
    Communicate with seniors about priorities, write tests for critical paths, refactor incrementally, and avoid shortcuts that compromise maintainability.

πŸ“‹ Job Summary

House Rx is hiring a Junior Full-Stack Engineer in the U.S. to build impactful healthcare software using Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, and Postgres. This full-time, remote role offers \$95K–\$110K and emphasizes mentorship, rapid learning, and collaboration within a mission-driven team focused on making specialty medications accessible. Join a supportive culture passionate about growth, innovation, and improving patient care through technology.

Required Skills

NodeJS TypeScript ReactJS

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