Staff Software Engineer, Eligibility & Benefits
Parachute Health · U.S. Remote
About this role
**Parachute Health — Staff Software Engineer (Eligibility & Benefits)** 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. In this role, you’ll build systems that ensure every durable medical equipment (DME) order has verified coverage before it ships—tackling real-time payer eligibility checks and architecting solutions to parse messy, inconsistent insurance data. **What you’ll do** - Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming - Partner daily with Product and Design to scope features, weigh tradeoffs, and ship workflows that are simple to use and production-ready - Direct key technical decisions across application and data model design - Maintain stable and performant application stacks - Ship quality, well-tested, maintainable code tied to clear outcomes for clinicians, suppliers, and patients - Apply strong understanding of data structures, TDD, and software engineering design patterns - Lead technical decisions and mentor engineers - Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve critical system issues and improve reliability/availability - Use AI developer tools to speed delivery, catch defects earlier, and reduce repetitive work - Own integrations with payers and clearinghouses (retries, failure modes, keeping data current) - Design payer/plan data mapping, measure accuracy vs. what suppliers bill, and improve it over time - Partner with Product, Ops, and supplier stakeholders; write the technical narrative to align the organization **Requirements** - 7+ years of production experience with Ruby on Rails or other open source languages (e.g., Python, Golang, JavaScript) - Staff-level engineering experience, including technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring - Revenue cycle experience in at least one of: eligibility & benefits, claims, billing, or prior authorization - Must reside in the U.S. **Nice to have** - Familiarity with AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, etc.) - Exposure to X12 EDI: 270/271, 837/835, 278 - Experience with clearinghouses or revenue cycle vendors (e.g., Availity, Change Healthcare/Optum, Waystar, Stedi, Experian Health) **Benefits** - Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage (options for low-to-no-cost premiums) - Employer HSA contribution - 401(k) retirement plan - Equity incentive plan - Annual company-wide bonus (opportunity up to 15% based on company performance) - Remote-first culture (NYC office + co-working reimbursement) - Flexible vacation policy - Summer Fridays (5 additional Fridays off) - Home office and wellness stipend - Monthly internet stipend - Annual learning & development stipend **Base Salary Band** - $200,000 - $260,000 *Note: New engineers participate in a 90-day review to calibrate leveling based on actual work, ensuring title and compensation align with impact and the engineering rubric.*
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