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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Parachute Health
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $260,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, ASC X12 Standards, Data Structures, Software Design Patterns, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Pair Programming, Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Reliability of Systems, AI Coding Agents, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-eligibility-benefits-parachute-health-10708950

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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