A Delightfully Simple way to order medical equipment & supplies
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Foundations
Location
California
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$165K - $210K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Foundations
Parachute Health
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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.
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
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