Staff Engineer - Eligibility & Benefits (Remote-First)

parachutehealth; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First Culture

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Equity Incentive Plan

Annual company-wide bonus up to 15%

Job summary

Parachute Health is hiring a Staff Engineer to join the Eligibility & Benefits team. You will tackle real-time payer eligibility checks and architect solutions to parse medical data for DME orders, reducing denials and manual work.

You will lead technical decisions, design scalable data models, and own payer integrations while collaborating with Product, Ops, and suppliers to deliver measurable outcomes for clinicians and patients. This role is remote-first with an NYC office option.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience in Ruby on Rails or similar open source languages
• Staff-level engineering experience with leadership and mentoring
• Revenue cycle experience in eligibility/benefits, claims, billing, or prior authorization
• Must reside in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop in an agile environment with TDD and pair programming
• Collaborate with Product and Design to scope features and ensure production readiness
• Make and own technical decisions related to data model and application design
• Maintain stable, performant stacks and ship quality, well-tested code
• Lead the team in technical decisions and contribute to reliability improvements
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive system availability enhancements
• Leverage AI tooling to speed delivery and reduce manual work
• Own payer and clearinghouse integrations including retries and data freshness
• Map payer/plan data and measure accuracy against supplier billing
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical narratives with business goals

Skills

Staff-level engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

X12 EDI

Clearinghouses integration

Job description

Parachute Health is hiring a Staff Engineer to join the Eligibility & Benefits team. You will tackle real-time payer eligibility checks and architect solutions to parse medical data for DME orders, reducing denials and manual work.

You will lead technical decisions, design scalable data models, and own payer integrations while collaborating with Product, Ops, and suppliers to deliver measurable outcomes for clinicians and patients. This role is remote-first with an NYC office option.