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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Photon'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Photon

- **Company:** Photon
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/photon/am9icG9zdDpL4xgxKjrEK2H6aICx8Qye

## Job description

Location: NYC Metro Area (Williamsburg Office, 3+ days/week) Reports to: CTO

Company Mission Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, which saves them time by allowing their patients to shop between pharmacies. The vision is to help consumers save money by increasing transparency.

Who We’re Looking For We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the core systems powering Photon. As an early engineer, you’ll work across the full stack—from APIs and backend systems to user-facing applications used by patients, providers, pharmacists, and internal teams. You’ll own features end-to-end, contribute to product direction, and help shape the technical foundation of the company. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, moving quickly, and building products that directly improve real-world experiences in healthcare.

Core Responsibilities

- Design, build, and scale the systems that power Photon’s platform, including APIs, services, and data models
- Develop user-facing experiences across our web applications for patients, providers, and partners
- Own features from conception to launch, including design, implementation, and iteration
- Collaborate closely with Product and Ops to deeply understand user needs and translate them into thoughtful solutions
- Make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
- Improve engineering tooling, processes, and standards to increase team velocity and quality
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to building a strong, collaborative engineering culture

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack applications
- Strong foundation across backend systems, APIs, and frontend development
- Experience designing systems and evaluating tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, and performance
- Track record of owning projects and delivering high-impact features in a collaborative environment
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and take ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage setting
- Passion for building high-quality user experiences and working closely with customers
- Strong communication and collaboration skills

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other complex / regulated industries
- Familiarity with API design and distributed systems
- Experience working in early- or growth-stage startups
- Interest in improving developer tooling and internal systems
- Experience leveraging AI in workflows

## Why Join Us

Photon is reimagining how prescriptions move through the healthcare system—making it simpler, faster, and more transparent for patients, providers, and pharmacies alike. You’ll:

- Build across the full product surface with meaningful ownership and impact
- Help define the technical and product direction of an early-stage company
- Work closely with a small, high-performing team across engineering, product, and design
- Work on a problem almost everyone you know has experienced, and help fix a system that’s broken in ways most people just accept
- Be pushed—these are hard problems, and we expect a lot—but the growth and impact that come with it are real
- Join a team that gives a shit—about the work, about each other, and about doing things the right way. High trust, high standards, and we actually like spending time together

## Our Values

🍕🐀 Be a Pizza Rat – We’re ambitious subway dwellers. It’s our slice and we’re not letting go. 🍚 🍣 Make Rice – We don’t prepare fish until we’ve mastered rice. Quality is in details. 🛰️ 🌎 Put it in Orbit – We know success happens well after lift-off. The rocket isn’t our mission. 🔍 🏴‍☠️ Seek Buried Treasure – We’re digging in unexpected places. Our adventure has meaning. 🍄 🌒 Grow in Darkness – We’re thriving amidst forest decay. Our day in the sun will come.

Pay Transparency The estimated base salary for this role is $180,000 – $220,000 USD annually. Actual compensation will depend on skills, qualifications, and experience, and includes equity and benefits. At our stage, we place significant value on equity as part of total compensation.

## About Photon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Photon is a global leader in AI and digital solutions, partnering with 40% of the Fortune 100 to accelerate digital transformation through AI management, digital innovation, product design, and engineering excellence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (co-founder and CTO mentioned but names not disclosed)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Digital transformation services, AI solutions, digital experience design, software engineering, and consulting.
- Target customers: B2B – large enterprises, specifically 40% of the Fortune 100 (including CIOs and digital leaders).
- Mission or purpose statement: “Make tomorrow happen today” by combining AI management, digital innovation, product design thinking, and engineering excellence to create transformational change.

## Products & Services
- **Digital HyperExpansion® (DHX) Framework**: Photon’s proprietary methodology for enterprise digital transformation, covering data technology, customer platforms, APIs & microservices, and big data / AI-enabled predictive analytics.
- **AI & Agentic AI Solutions**: Design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures, and governed AI platforms – including Senior Agentic AI Engineer roles and Principal Data Scientist teams.
- **Mobile & Web Experience Design**: State-of-the-art mobile apps and multi-platform user experiences powered by the latest digital technologies.
- **Digital Engineering & Infrastructure**: Microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and API-led integration.
- **Strategy Consulting**: Creative design and technology strategy to help enterprises become technology platforms.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Works with 40% of the Fortune 100; employs 7,500+ digital engineers globally (as of latest website); serves over 1 billion+ touchpoints per day.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (no funding rounds found); partners include Fortune 500 companies across industries.
- **Growth Signals**: Global presence with 14 offices worldwide; headcount >6,000 (PDF) to >7,500 (website); active hiring for advanced AI roles (Senior Agentic AI Engineer, Principal Data Scientist, Agentic AI Architect); expanding AI service lines.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Differentiators**:
  - Proprietary **Digital HyperExpansion®** framework that combines AI management, digital innovation, design thinking, and engineering at scale.
  - Deep penetration into Fortune 100 – works with 40% of them, indicating high trust and repeat business.
  - End-to-end capability: from strategy and creative design to engineering, data science, and AI agents.
  - Global delivery model: over 7,500 engineers across 14 offices, enabling onshore/offshore flexibility.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Accelerating AI adoption for enterprise clients, particularly in Agentic AI, Generative AI, and large-scale multi-agent systems. Emphasizing “Digital HyperExpansion” as the third wave of digital growth. Focus on data-driven lifecycle management, AI quality and evaluation, and governed enterprise AI platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Open culture” with direct communication, no hierarchy, and emphasis on collaboration. Continuous learning via **Photon University** – training programs to advance skills. Career growth opportunities working with renowned enterprise brands and objective evaluations.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Flexible – jobs mention “Onsite / Offshore (Flexible)” and offices in multiple US cities (Dallas, NYC, Chicago), London, San Francisco, etc. Specific roles may be onsite or hybrid depending on client needs.
- **Notable perks**: Family medical leave, 401(k) offering, family/childcare benefits. Benefits listed on Built In San Francisco include family + childcare benefits and 401(k).

## Sources
1. [photon.com](https://www.photon.com/)
2. [photon.com/careers](https://www.photon.com/careers)
3. [Photon Company Overview PDF](https://photon.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/Photon%20Company%20Overview.pdf)
4. [dice.com](https://www.dice.com/company-profile/86e6f6e9-556e-59d8-a109-e78c232538e8?companyname=Photon)
5. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/photon)

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