Principal Engineer
Parachute Health · U.S. Remote
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**Parachute Health — Principal Engineer** Parachute Health is transforming post-acute care as the leading digital ordering platform for medical equipment and supplies. We connect major health systems, health plans, and suppliers to help patients get the life-saving products they need at home—connecting 300,000+ clinicians and 3,000+ supplier locations across all 50 states and helping 15M+ patients. --- ## About the Role We’re seeking a **Principal Engineer** to serve as the technical leader of one of our engineering divisions. You’ll own the architecture and technical direction across multiple teams working on core parts of the Parachute platform—especially the workflows that connect clinicians, health systems, health plans, and HME providers. This is a **hands-on, division-wide** role. You’ll partner with engineering managers, Product, and Design to set direction across teams, make hard technical calls, and stay close enough to the code to prove them out. As Parachute pivots from feature delivery toward foundational, **AI-driven infrastructure**, you’ll be a trusted technical leader for ambiguous problems and high-impact solutions. --- ## Responsibilities - **Division Architecture:** Define architectural standards and target state; ensure systems evolve coherently. - **Large-Scale Refactoring:** Drive refactoring to enable clear domain ownership and independence in a shared codebase. - **Decisive Technical Leadership:** Turn ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear direction, plans, and shipped software. - **Work in the Open:** Lead decisions via Architecture Decision Documents and open discussion. - **AI-Native Engineering:** Set standards for building with AI (agentic coding, review/test acceleration, repo-native tooling, MCP servers). - **Stay in the Code:** Prototype quickly, write production code on critical paths, and review designs/PRs. - **Technical Shaping & Economics:** Lead discovery, feasibility, and sizing; translate foundational work into business terms. - **Quality & Reliability:** Define testing strategy, observability, and on-call practices for critical healthcare workflows. - **Raise the Bar:** Grow staff and senior engineers into technical leaders; shape hiring/leveling. - **Engineering Leadership Beyond the Division:** Partner with peer Principal Engineers on org-wide standards (architecture, review, testing, SDLC). --- ## Requirements - **12+ years** delivering production software, including significant time at **Staff level or above**. - Track record setting architecture across multiple teams/org; **Ruby on Rails** or similar open source stack (**Python, Go, TypeScript**). - Led at least one **large-scale refactoring/decomposition** of a shared domain model. - Ability to make and own **high-stakes technical decisions** under ambiguity; align engineers, Product, and leadership. - Daily, hands-on use of **AI coding tools** with a clear point of view on impact to architecture/practice. - Excellent written communication; drive alignment through design docs and decision records. - **Must reside in the U.S.** --- ## Nice to Have - Experience in **healthcare** (FHIR, HL7, EHR integrations, clinical or payer workflows) or another regulated domain. - Experience designing production **LLM-backed/agentic systems**. - Experience operating in a large shared codebase with clear domain ownership boundaries. - Deep familiarity with **AWS** (ECS, RDS, S3). --- ## Benefits - Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage (option
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