Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineers, Software Engineers at Empower Pharmacy

Posted October 6, 2026 by ajitgoel on Hacker News's "Who is hiring?" thread.

Empower Pharmacy is hiring engineers to work on event-driven, distributed systems that actually run a real-world business (regulated pharma), not ad tech or yet another CRUD SaaS.

We just filled one Staff Engineer role directly from my last LinkedIn post (thanks to everyone who shared/applied). Now we’re expanding the team:

- 1 Staff Software Engineer - 4 Senior Software Engineers - 4 Software Engineers (new grad / early career)

All roles are US-based (remote within the US).

We’re a small team owning the core platforms that run manufacturing, operations, and logistics. A lot of the work is greenfield or foundational: distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability/observability, and making it all scale in a domain where correctness actually matters.

Tech stack: Java / Spring Boot, React / Next.js, Azure (Service Bus, Kubernetes), SQL Server. Event-driven, service-oriented architecture at enterprise scale. We use AI-assisted development heavily in the workflow (not as a bolt-on), so if you already lean on tools like Copilot/LLMs, you’ll be at home.

We’re setting up a round-robin “Virtual Interview Day” early next week so we can run both interview rounds in a single day for candidates who advance. The process is straightforward: practical discussions, system design, and code; no brainteasers.

If you: - like thinking in terms of systems and failure modes, - are comfortable across the stack (or want to grow there), - and want your work to have direct impact on how a real business operates,

then I’d like to talk.

Job description and application: https://lnkd.in/g926gzEx If you’d rather skip the form, email me or DM me and include a GitHub/LinkedIn/resume and a short note on what you’ve built.