Staff Software Engineer: Lead Tech & Platform (Remote)

Parachute Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

HSA Contribution

401(k)

Equity Incentive

Annual Bonus 15%

Remote-First with NYC office

Flexible Vacation

Summer Fridays

Home Office Stipend

Internet Stipend

Learning & Development

Job summary

Parachute Health seeks a Staff Engineer to help drive the architecture of our Ruby on Rails-based platform for post-acute care. You will lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product and design to deliver reliable, scalable software.

The role embraces a remote-first culture with an NYC office and strong compensation, plus benefits. Expect emphasis on performance, reliability, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a production environment with Ruby on Rails or other open source languages.
• Staff-level engineering experience, including technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers.
• Must reside in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming.
• Contribute to balanced teams, working with product and design to shape the application.
• Direct key technical decisions related to application and data model design.
• Maintain stable and performant application stacks.
• Consistently deliver quality code that supports business goals.
• Understanding of data structures, TDD, and software engineering design patterns and principles.
• Ability to lead a team in making technical decisions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring timely resolution of critical system issues, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our system reliability and availability.
• Leverage cutting-edge AI developer tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and automate routine tasks.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Open source languages

Staff-level engineering

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Parachute Health seeks a Staff Engineer to help drive the architecture of our Ruby on Rails-based platform for post-acute care. You will lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product and design to deliver reliable, scalable software.

The role embraces a remote-first culture with an NYC office and strong compensation, plus benefits. Expect emphasis on performance, reliability, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery.