Staff Software Engineer, Eligibility & Benefits

About the Role

Parachute Health is hiring a Staff Engineer to join our Eligibility & Benefits team. We build the systems that ensures every durable medical equipment (DME) order has verified coverage before it ships. In this role, you’ll tackle real-time payer eligibility checks and architect solutions to parse messy, inconsistent insurance data, directly cutting claim denials and eliminating manual overhead for DME providers.

Responsibilities

Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming.

Work every day with Product and Design to scope features, weigh tradeoffs, and turn workflows into software that’s simple to use and holds up in production.

Direct key technical decisions related to application and data model design.

Maintain stable and performant application stacks.

Ship quality code that moves the business. Deliver readable, well-tested, maintainable code tied to clear outcomes for clinicians, suppliers, and patients.

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.

Use AI developer tools to work smarter. Adopt and help evaluate AI coding assistants and automation that speed up delivery, catch defects earlier, and cut repetitive work.

Own integrations with payers and clearinghouses, including retries, failure modes, and keeping data current.

Design how payer and plan data gets mapped, measure how accurate it is against what suppliers actually bill, and get it better.

Partner with Product, Ops, and supplier stakeholders, and write the technical narrative that gets the org aligned.

Requirements

Minimum of 7 years of experience in a production environment 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 engineers

Revenue cycle experience in at least one of: eligibility and benefits, claims, billing, or prior authorization

Must reside in the U.S.

Nice to Have

Familiar with AWS services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, etc).

Exposure to X12 EDI: 270/271, 837/835, 278

Clearinghouses or revenue cycle vendors: Availity, Change Healthcare/Optum, Waystar, Stedi, Experian Health

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive plans with options for low-to-no-cost premiums.

Employer HSA Contribution: Company-funded contributions to your Health Savings Account.

401(k) Retirement Plan

Equity Incentive Plan

Annual Company-Wide Bonus: Opportunity for up to 15% bonus based on company performance.

Remote-First Culture: We are remote-first with a dedicated NYC office and reimbursement options for co-working spaces.

Flexible Vacation Policy

Summer Fridays: 5 additional Fridays off during the summer (separate from PTO).

Home Office and Wellness Stipend

Monthly Internet Stipend

Annual Learning and Development Stipend

Base Salary Band (based on experience and level)

$200,000 - $260,000

To ensure you’re leveled accurately, all new engineers participate in a 90-day review. This allows us to calibrate your initial interview results with your actual work, ensuring your title and compensation align with your impact and our engineering rubric.