Staff Software Engineer, Platform

RCM Holdco; United States; On-site; USD 212,000 - 409,000; Full time

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering to lead the architecture and hands-on delivery of Phare Fiber, an integration layer enabling Phare OS applications to share data and state.

You will define event, API, identity, and data contracts and ship the first production use case with a small team. Based in the United States, you will help set technical direction across the Application Platform portfolio, own production systems with SLOs, observability, and on-call

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• 5+ years setting technical direction across multiple teams or a large platform.
• Expertise with production event-driven systems using Apache Kafka or equivalent.
• Experience integrating heterogeneous systems via backward-compatible APIs and event contracts.
• Experience with Spark/Databricks or lakehouse platforms.
• Staff-level technical leadership across teams while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for Phare Fiber, defining contracts, schemas, and patterns.
• Ship first production use case end-to-end and build client libraries and onboarding patterns.
• Lead design reviews and establish standards for testing, API design, and backward compatibility.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to set direction and prioritize outcomes.
• Own production through SLOs, observability, on-call, incident response, mentoring.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Event-driven systems

Kafka

APIs & contracts

Spark/Databricks

Job description

At R1, we're transforming how healthcare works by combining nearly two decades of revenue cycle expertise with advanced technology, including analytics, AI, intelligent automation and workflow orchestration. We pair that technology with the irreplaceable expertise of our people to help hospitals, health systems and medical groups improve financial performance, simplify administrative complexity and create better experiences for patients and providers.

All Together Better defines our culture and the way we work. We're a diverse, global team united by a shared mission to make healthcare work better for all. Across technology, operations and support functions, our people bring deep expertise, empathy and ingenuity to the work we do. Here, collaboration fuels progress, adaptability sparks innovation and every voice can help shape what's next for R1 and the future of healthcare.

As our Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering, you will lead the architecture and hands‑on delivery of Phare Fiber, a new integration layer that will enable applications across Phare OS to share data and state. You will define the event, API, identity, and data contracts behind the platform, ship the first production use case with a small engineering team, and turn that foundation into reusable capabilities other application teams can adopt. As the platform grows, you will also help set technical direction across the broader Application Platform portfolio. To thrive in this role, you must have deep experience building and operating event‑driven distributed systems, strong technical judgment across service and data architecture, and the ability to lead across teams while remaining hands‑on.

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

• Lead the technical architecture for Phare Fiber, defining identity and join‑key contracts, event and API contracts, schema evolution, delivery patterns and guarantees, cross‑cloud connectivity, and tenant and PHI boundaries.
• Write production code and ship the first use case end to end with a measurable outcome, then build the client libraries, onboarding patterns, and contract‑review processes that make the platform reusable across application teams.
• Lead design reviews across the Application Platform portfolio and establish engineering standards for testing, API design, backward compatibility, and operational readiness.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders across Phare OS applications, Data Platform, Infrastructure, and Security to set technical direction and prioritize work around measurable outcomes.
• Own what you build in production through SLOs, observability, on‑call, and incident response while mentoring engineers across the team.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems, including 5+ years setting technical direction across multiple teams or a significant platform.
• Expertise building and operating production event‑driven systems using Apache Kafka or an equivalent platform.
• Experience integrating heterogeneous systems through backward‑compatible APIs and event contracts.
• Experience with event‑driven data architectures using Spark, Databricks, or an equivalent lakehouse platform.
• Staff‑level technical leadership across teams while remaining hands‑on.

For this US‑based position, the base pay range is $212,100.00 - $409,050.00 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 at a target of 25.00%

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. Furthe