Senior UI Engineer (Front-end) - San Francisco, CA

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 

Join our Product & Engineering team as a Senior UI Engineer, a technical leader who brings delightful, accessible, and high-performance user experiences to life. You’ll shape the front-end architecture of our pharmacy management platform, partner closely with product and design, and set the standard for UI engineering excellence across the team. Our core stack is React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and AWS.

 What You’ll Do

• Craft & Ship UI: Build and refine React applications, design-system components, complex flows, and own performance, accessibility, and responsive behavior end to end.
• Architect the Front-End: Design scalable client-side architecture (state management, routing, testing, CI/CD).and collaborate on API contracts so the UI and back-end evolve together.
• Elevate Quality: Drive code reviews, automated testing, while Introducing best practices for semantic HTML, ARIA, modern CSS, and keyboard navigation.
• Mentor & Grow Team: Actively mentor junior and mid-level engineers fostering their growth, while you make significant technical contributions.

About You

You are a front-end specialist who can still dive into back-end code when needed, but your super-power is turning Figma wires into fast, resilient, and beautiful experiences.

Technical Leadership:

• 5+ years building modern web applications with React + TypeScript in production.
• Proven mastery of component libraries/design systems, responsive CSS, accessibility (WCAG 2.2), and front-end performance tooling (Lighthouse, Web Vitals).
• Solid experience designing RESTful API interfaces and integrating them cleanly in the UI.
• Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical leadership experience.

Ownership & Strategic Impact:

• You thrive on owning critical systems shaping their evolution and driving initiatives to success.
• Possess strong business acumen to align technical strategy with evolving business priorities.
• Adept at thoughtfully leveraging AI development tools to boost productivity and quality.

Collaboration & Mentorship:

• Exceptional communicator, articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Inclusive cross-functional leader, guiding teams and managing trade-offs effectively.
• Dedicated mentor, passionate about growing fellow engineers.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in a fast-paced, remote environment.

Why You’ll Enjoy Leading With Us

• Drive Meaningful Impact: Lead the design of tech that improves patient access to medications.
• Empowerment & Agency: Wield significant autonomy to shape technical strategy.
• Inspire & Grow Talent: Mentor engineers in technical concepts and foster a culture of excellence.

• Vibrant & Supportive Culture: Join a fun, thoughtful, down-to-earth team that values collaboration, continuous learning, and celebrating successes.

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:  $160,000-$185,000

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.

💻 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.

🎉 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! 🚀