Remote Principal Architect & AI-Driven Systems Leader

parachutehealth; United States; Remote; USD 265,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

HSA contributions

Equity

Annual bonus opportunity

Learning and development stipend

Home office stipend

Job summary

parachutehealth is seeking a hands-on technical leader to set the direction and architecture for an engineering division building healthcare software workflows. You will guide multiple teams through foundational improvements while contributing code and keeping delivery moving.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of production software experience at Staff level or above, strong architectural leadership across teams, and daily experience with AI coding tools. Must reside in the United States.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of production software experience, at Staff level or above.
• Architecture across multiple teams using Rails or similar stack (Python/Go/TypeScript).
• Track record of large-scale refactoring or decomposition of a shared domain model.
• Ability to own high-impact technical decisions amid ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture standards across the division's systems.
• Lead refactoring to establish domain ownership and team independence.
• Turn ambiguous problems into technical decisions, plans, and shipped software.
• Drive design discussions and document decisions to build alignment.
• Set expectations for testing, observability, and on-call health; mentor engineers.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Architectural direction

AI coding tools

Cross-team collaboration

Hands-on coding

Decision making amid ambiguity

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Python

Go

TypeScript

Job description

parachutehealth is seeking a hands-on technical leader to set the direction and architecture for an engineering division building healthcare software workflows. You will guide multiple teams through foundational improvements while contributing code and keeping delivery moving.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of production software experience at Staff level or above, strong architectural leadership across teams, and daily experience with AI coding tools. Must reside in the United States.