Staff Software Engineer

About this role

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. Since launching, we've connected 300,000+ clinicians and 3,000+ supplier locations across all 50 states and helped 15M+ patients. What started as a DME ePrescribing tool has become the order management platform of choice for home medical equipment.

Join our team and make a difference in patient care.

Responsibilities

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

• Contribute to balanced teams, working with product and design to shape the application.

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

• Maintain stable and performant application stacks.

• Consistently deliver quality code that supports business goals.

• 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.

• Leverage cutting-edge AI developer tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and automate routine tasks.

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

• Must reside in the U.S.

Nice to Have

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

• Exposure to healthcare technologies (FHIR or HL7)