Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (HL7/FHIR)

R1 RCM; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market compensation

Flexible PTO

Hybrid in-office

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) matching

Inspiring, mission-driven teammates

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Austin to lead engineering for AI-driven healthcare revenue platforms. You will influence roadmaps, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable systems.

You will collaborate with product and business stakeholders, design robust solutions, and champion best practices for maintainability, testability, and performance in a fast-growing healthcare tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering.
• 5+ years in a thought leadership role.
• Experience with clinical data and claims lifecycle preferred.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and big data concepts.
• Experience with Spark, Python, Scala, and Databricks.
• Experience with Epic, FHIR, and HL7.
• Extensive cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Web services: XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, REST.
• Modern software development: version control, testing, CI/CD.
• Healthcare tech experience and Agile.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in roadmap definition with product and engineering leaders.
• Shape technology direction and strategic choices.
• Provide architectural recommendations optimizing maintainability and performance.
• Estimate epics, features, and stories with product and business stakeholders.
• Maintain automated build steps, CI systems, and staging environments.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking, teamwork, initiative.
• Mentor junior developers.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Thought leadership

Big Data

Python

Scala

Spark

Databricks

FHIR

HL7

Epic

Azure

AWS

GCP

REST/JSON

CI/CD

Agile

Healthcare data

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Spark

Python

Scala

Epic

FHIR

HL7

Git

Job description

About Us

Phare Health is now part of R1 and its AI innovation engine, R37 Lab , bringing Phare’s frontier clinical reasoning technology together with one of the largest healthcare platforms in the U.S.

At R37 and Phare, we are building the first AI-native Healthcare Revenue Operating System : a connected platform that reasons over full medical records, payer logic, and financial workflows to automate medical coding, billing, and follow-up.

Backed by real customers, real data, and real distribution, we operate on a national scale. Our agentic AI systems already power production workflows across 95 of the top 100 U.S. health systems , processing hundreds of millions of patient encounters each year, including:

• 180M+ Claims

• 550M+ Patient encounters

• 1.2B+ Workflow actions and outcomes each year

This is startup-level ownership with enterprise-level impact. If you want to build AI that ships, scales, and measurably improves how healthcare works, this is the place to do it.

The Role

As our Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering team and apply advanced technical knowledge, broad knowledge of software engineering best practices, problem-solving, and creativity to build and maintain software products that achieve technical, business, and customer experience goals. To thrive in this role, you must have the ability and willingness to mentor and develop junior software engineers, and act as a thought leader and trusted subject-matter expert in a variety of technical domains.

Here’s what you will experience working as a Staff Software Engineer:

• Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.

• Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices.

• Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance.

• Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories.

• Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments.

• Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative.

• Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field

• 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering experience

• 5+ years of experience in a thought leadership role

• Preferable experience working with clinical data, understanding the full life cycle of claims

• Advanced knowledge of general engineering concepts, such as design patterns, with a focus on Big Data

• Advanced understanding of Apache Spark, Python, Scala, and Databricks

• Relevant experience with Epic, FHIR, and HL7

• Extensive experience with cloud environments, including Azure, GCP or AWS

• Web services standards and related technology knowledge (XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, Rest.)

• Understanding of modern software development, including version control, unit testing, and continuous integration & deployment

• Healthcare technology industry experience

• Agile development experience

• Strong communication skills, with proven ability to present complex ideas and to document concisely

Benefits

• Top-of-market compensation (salary + equity)

• Flexible PTO

• Hybrid in-office (min. 3 days per week)

• Comprehensive health benefits

• 401(k) matching

• Inspiring, brilliant, mission-driven teammates

Hiring Flow

• Intro call - your background & our mission alignment

• Technical deep-dives - pseudo-coding exercise and systems design (not Leetcode)

• Cross-Functional Interview

• References

• Offer

Interview Logistics Notice

As part of our hiring process, selected candidates will participate in an in-person interview. Candidates located near one of our talent hubs—San Francisco, New York, Austin—will be scheduled to meet with team members in those locations. For candidates residing outside these areas, we will arrange travel to a hub for the interview. Travel accommodation will be provided as needed. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and ensuring a fair and inclusive experience for all applicants.

For this US-based position, the base pay range is $120,000.00-$300,000 per year. Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

This job is eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan.

The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups, and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly, and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.

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