Staff Software Engineer: Eligibility & Benefits (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Employer HSA contributions

401(k) with company match

Equity

Job summary

parachutehealth is seeking a staff-level engineering leader to guide systems that verify insurance eligibility and benefits for durable medical equipment orders. You will partner with Product, Design, Operations, and engineers to shape data design and workflows in a remote-first setup.

The role focuses on real-time payer checks, data quality, and reducing manual work and denials, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to explore AI tooling to cut repetitive work.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production software engineering experience with Ruby on Rails or another open-source language such as Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• Staff-level technical leadership, cross‑functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers.
• Revenue cycle experience in eligibility and benefits, claims, billing, or prior authorization.
• Must reside in the United States and be authorized to work there; employer visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, performant software using agile practices, test-driven development, and collaborative coding.
• Guide application and data model decisions, write maintainable and well-tested code, and mentor engineers in technical decisions.
• Own payer and clearinghouse integrations, including retries, failure handling, and keeping information current.
• Map payer and plan data, measure its accuracy against supplier billing experience, and improve data quality.
• Work with Product and Design to shape usable workflows and document technical tradeoffs for stakeholders.
• Participate in on-call support for critical incidents and improve system reliability; evaluate AI coding tools and automation to reduce repetitive work and catch defects.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Revenue cycle knowledge

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Python

Go

JavaScript

Job description

parachutehealth is seeking a staff-level engineering leader to guide systems that verify insurance eligibility and benefits for durable medical equipment orders. You will partner with Product, Design, Operations, and engineers to shape data design and workflows in a remote-first setup.

The role focuses on real-time payer checks, data quality, and reducing manual work and denials, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to explore AI tooling to cut repetitive work.