Join iA – Transforming Pharmacy Fulfillment with Innovation and Care
Are you ready to revolutionize pharmacy with cutting-edge automation technology? At iA® (Innovation Associates®), we are at the forefront of transforming how pharmacies manage prescription fulfillment. With over 30 years of experience and innovation, iA is advancing pharmacy automation with solutions such as the NEXiA® Enterprise Software Suite, enabling pharmacists to focus more on patient care while improving operational efficiency. Whether it's in commercial retail, health systems, or government pharmacy settings, we empower our partners to do more with less. We’re looking for passionate and driven individuals like YOU to help shape the future of healthcare. Join us and be part of a team that's changing the way pharmacy works—for the better.
Your Role & Its Purpose:
NEXiA runs inside customer pharmacies and carries years of hard-won pharmacy logic. You’ll help modernize it incrementally using the strangler fig approach: take one capability at a time out of the legacy system, rebuild it as a well-defined bounded context, and route traffic to the new implementation with a clear path back if something goes wrong. Pharmacists and operators keep working the way they always have while the system underneath changes.
This is not a greenfield role, and the interesting problems are at the boundary: anti-corruption layers that keep legacy coupling out of new code, backward compatibility across the customer versions in the field, and [legacy stack / key constraint]. We’re looking for someone who starts from how a pharmacy actually works (filling, verifying, dispensing, stocking) and builds the model from there, and who’s comfortable working directly with pharmacists and support staff to get it right.
How You’ll Contribute:
Domain-Driven Modernization
- Decompose legacy NEXiA capabilities into bounded contexts modeled on real pharmacy workflows (fulfillment, dispensing, inventory, patient safety)
- Design and implement anti-corruption layers and facade patterns that isolate new modules from legacy coupling
- Execute strangler fig migrations — incrementally routing traffic from legacy paths to new implementations with rollback capability
- Maintain seamless end-user experience throughout transitions; the pharmacist should be oblivious to what's changing underneath
- Collaborate with domain experts (pharmacists, operators, support) to validate that domain models reflect real-world activities, not inherited technical artifacts
Systems Design & Architecture
- Reason about system behavior across module boundaries — trace failure modes, data consistency, and latency implications before they become production incidents
- Design for the constraints of on-prem, customer-deployed environments: upgrade paths, backward compatibility, long-lived versions
- Make deliberate architectural trade-offs between isolation and pragmatism; not every boundary needs a message bus
- Own technical design within bounded contexts; propose decomposition strategies and defend them in design reviews
Engineering Craft
- Build full-stack applications using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core and modern front-end frameworks
- Write meaningful tests — integration tests that validate domain behavior across the old/new boundary, not just unit test coverage metrics
- Apply DDD patterns (aggregates, domain events, context mapping) as tools for clarity, not ceremony
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and observability — especially at the seams between legacy and modern components
AI Tooling & Evolving Practice
- Actively adopt AI-assisted development tools (code generation, automated refactoring, test generation) to accelerate modernization work
- Evaluate and integrate AI tooling into daily workflows — not as novelty but as a force multiplier for understanding legacy code, generating migration scaffolding, and validating domain models
- Demonstrate willingness to evolve how you work as tooling capabilities change; the best tools in 12 months won't be the same as today
Collaboration
- Work across engineering, product, QA, and customer-facing teams to ensure modernization priorities align with customer impact
- Participate in design discussions with intellectual honesty — challenge assumptions, surface risks, and propose alternatives
- Mentor team members on DDD, migration patterns, and systems thinking
What You Bring to the Table:
- 6+ years of software development experience, with meaningful time spent modernizing or migrating existing systems (not exclusively greenfield)
- Demonstrated ability to model software around business domains rather than technical layers — evidence of DDD, bounded context identification, or equivalent domain modeling discipline
- Experience working at the boundary between legacy and modern systems: anti-corruption layers, facade patterns, incremental migration, feature flags for gradual cutover
- Strong proficiency in a statically-typed OO language (C#/.NET strongly preferred; Java or similar accepted with willingness to ramp)
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks (Angular, React, Blazor, or equivalent)
- Understanding of on-prem deployment constraints: customer-specific configurations, upgrade compatibility, long-lived versions
- Systems thinking — ability to reason about how changes propagate across module and service boundaries
Even Better If You Bring:
- Healthcare, pharmacy automation, or regulated-environment experience
- Experience with event-driven architectures and domain event patterns
- Familiarity with Azure cloud services and hybrid cloud/on-prem models
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools with concrete examples of productivity impact — hands-on experience with Claude Code, Opus, or Sonnet is a significant plus
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift) in on-prem environments
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
Compensation Details:
The estimated base annual salary range for this position is $116,000 to $185,000, though a candidate’s base annual salary shall be determined on a range of factors, including, but not limited to, qualifications and experience. This position may additionally be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Environmental Conditions:
iA follows a comprehensive Job Safety Assessment (JSA) to ensure software and IT environments comply with OSHA standards. This includes prioritizing ergonomics, proper lighting, and safe workspaces to minimize potential hazards. For remote employees, iA supports appropriate home office setups that align with OSHA guidelines for a safe and productive environment.
Safety Protocols:
Safety protocols include ensuring workstations are ergonomically designed to prevent repetitive strain injuries, encouraging regular breaks to reduce eye strain, implementing robust cybersecurity measures to protect data, and providing regular training on ergonomic practices and cybersecurity.
Who We Are:
iA is not just a technology company – we're a pharmacy fulfillment partner that provides software-enabled solutions and modular hardware to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the patient-pharmacist relationship. Our products and solutions streamline the prescription process from start to finish, allowing pharmacists to focus on what matters most: their patients.
What excites many people about iA is that we're doing more than responding to changes in the industry. We're helping drive them. Our solutions support pharmacies of all types, and our vision is centered on making pharmacy more efficient, effective, and accessible for everyone it touches.
What Drives Us:
- Customer Centric – Be bold with calculated decisions to drive value for our partners.
- Champion Diversity – Seek diversity within our team, our partners, and our community to strengthen who we are and what we will accomplish, together.
- Empower Ownership – Take ownership at every level and within every action to achieve excellence.
- Solutions Driven – Understand the problem and anticipate challenges, with a resolve to provide innovative solutions for our partners.
- Trust Daringly – Operate with trust of our team, our partners, and our strategy from day one.
Benefits that Matter:
- Work-Life Balance – Generous time-off, paid volunteer days, and wellness programs to support your well-being.
- Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with match, up to 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, pet insurance, and more.
- Career Growth – Invest in your future through iA University, tuition reimbursement for eligible degree programs and certifications, professional development funding, and ongoing opportunities to learn and grow.
- Culture of Ownership – At iA, we empower our employees to take charge and drive change.
- Impactful Work – Be part of a team that is transforming the pharmacy industry and improving patient care every day.
- Collaborative Environment – Work alongside passionate, like-minded individuals in a company that values teamwork and creativity.
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iA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
iA is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities throughout the job application process. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please reach out to us at [email protected] .
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