Parachute Health - Senior Software Engineer - Backend Foundations
Requirements
• A builder with a strong bias for action. • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to turn a vague goal into a shipped result. • Possess a strong sense of ownership: own features end-to-end. Identify high-leverage opportunities and run with them. • A strong cross-functional collaborator: you build relationships beyond your own team, listen to understand others' needs, and translate them into solutions that enable and support them. • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Experience working in a startup, incubator, or other fast-paced 0-to-1 environment where you own features end-to-end and set your own direction. • Strong full-stack web application experience in Python, Ruby, Go or other modern languages. Must be willing to learn and work in Ruby. • Familiarity with prompt engineering and the prompt iteration lifecycle. • Fluent with AI-powered coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code) to move quickly. • Strong written and verbal communication; able to drive alignment without being asked • Must reside in the U.S. • Healthcare Interoperability Standards: Exposure to FHIR, HL7, or integrating with major EHR systems (Epic, Cerner, etc.) • Experience working cross-functionally to improve business process • Experience as technical lead on projects working with UX/UI design and/or product management. • Has shipped reliable agentic LLM workflows to production, with any orchestration framework (LangGraph, LangChain, etc). • Experience evaluating and testing LLM workflows: eval harnesses, golden datasets, regressions, and observability. • Experience with building scaling infrastructure on AWS and with Terraform.
Responsibilities
• Build full-stack components of the platform: Ruby web applications at scale, TypeScript/React front-end. • Build agentic workflows that enhance the SDLC for engineers across the platform. Evaluate and recommend improvements based on accuracy, latency, and cost. • Strengthen our platform and SDLC: build datasets, monitoring, tooling, practices and workflows that improve our developing and operating services in our ecosystem. • Improve production observability: work with product teams to ensure they are equipped to effectively monitor the performance and reliability. • Help steer architectural and technical direction to ensure our applications follow cohesive and consolidated standards that ensure a high-level of quality and reliability • Actively partner with other product teams to understand use cases and identify how to best enable and support them. • Advise on best practices across platform use cases, service observability, maintenance and operation.
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). • Monthly Internet Stipend • Annual Learning and Development Stipend • Base Salary Band (based on experience and level)$165,000-$210,000 • Base Salary Band (based on experience and level) • California job applicants may access the Notice of Collection of Personal Information and Privacy Policy with information and rights required by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) the link here.
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