Staff Software Engineer, Eligibility & Benefits

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Familiar with AWS services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, etc).
• Exposure to X12 EDI: 270/271, 837/835, 278