Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

About the role

ABOUT US

Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.

Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.

Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:

- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 85% of ZIP codes and partner with 9 of top 15 largest biopharma companies in the world.

- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.

- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $300M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.

Our number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow. We move fast and need to move faster.

If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.

All full-time roles are in person in New York.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure at Forus, you will own the compute and data foundations the entire company runs on. You will own our EKS platform, data layer, cloud reliability, and infrastructure economics. You will make architecture decisions that compound for years: how services run and communicate, how data stores scale, what product teams can self-serve, and where we simplify or migrate before complexity becomes a constraint. This is a chance to shape the platform early enough that the right abstractions can materially change how quickly the entire company builds.

This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

IF YOU JOIN, YOU WILL:

- Own our compute platform, including container orchestration, networking, autoscaling, service topology, and ingress, and define the architecture and patterns that keep it reliable and simple as we scale

- Own our data layer, driving performance, scaling, and reliability across our databases (Postgres, OpenSearch, BigQuery), and lead the platform decisions that keep our datastores fast and cost-effective as load grows

- Own cloud spend by building attribution and driving optimization across compute, data, and storage, so spend grows more slowly than the business does