Director of Engineering
Published on July 31, 2025
In the U.S. alone, over 30 million patients per year are prescribed care via paper and fax. The ordering process is long, complicated, and yields an 83% error rate. Discharges are delayed, patients are stuck in care facilities, and often readmitted shortly thereafter if they do not receive the life-saving products they need.
The world is transitioning to digital ordering. At Parachute Health, we’re leading the charge with a platform that is 10 times faster than the status quo. We connect with major hospitals, payors, and suppliers of life-saving products. Our vision of a "delightfully simple" digital ordering experience for clinicians pushes us forward to transforming the world of post-acute care.
Founded in New York City, Parachute Health is the leading post-acute software platform with a network of over 3,000 supplier locations and 370,000 clinicians across 60,000 healthcare facilities across all 50 states. We help millions of patients each year access medical equipment, supplies and services they need quickly and reliably.
Nearly half of patients needing medical equipment at discharge don’t get it in time. The ordering process is too convoluted and is still primarily handled by fax. These inefficiencies lead to higher cost of care and poorer patient outcomes. In the most extreme cases, this equipment means life or death. At Parachute Health, it is our mission to make sure that every patient gets what they need, when they need it. We achieve this by driving efficiency through digital connectivity into every aspect of the ordering process, making it delightfully simple.
We’re leading the charge with a platform that is 10 times faster than the status quo. We connect with major hospitals, payors, and suppliers of life-saving products. Our vision of a “delightfully simple” digital ordering experience for clinicians pushes us forward to transforming the world of post-acute care.
We’ve built a strong network of clinicians, suppliers, health plans, and patients that we serve every day—but we’re ready to amplify our story in a bigger, more systematic way. That’s where you come in.
We’re leading the charge with a platform that is 10 times faster than the status quo. We connect with major hospitals, payors, and suppliers of life-saving products. Our vision of a “delightfully simple” digital ordering experience for clinicians pushes us forward to transforming the world of post-acute care.
We’ve built a strong network of clinicians, suppliers, health plans, and patients that we serve every day—but we’re ready to amplify our story in a bigger, more systematic way. That’s where you come in.
Responsibilities:
- Influence company goal setting by representing engineering’s current and future capacity & capabilities.
- Strategically align division teams with the company direction, then communicate the vision and plan to the rest of the engineering team and other stakeholders.
- Understand how to navigate a complex domain area and reconcile market, budget, and competing priorities as constraints.
- Department budget ownership not limited to but including current headcount, team development, education, tooling, hiring and retention.
- Track and evaluate key performance metrics, objectives, dependencies, status, and results of a growing product portfolio
- Shape technical processes with the assistance of engineering leadership.
- Lead engineering managers, mentor next level down leaders, and build engineering teams in a high-growth environment
- Empower developer productivity and set the tone for the culture of the department
- Evaluate technology partners, where appropriate
- Collaborate with other departmental leaders (Product, Design, Technical Program Management, Data) to organize initiatives and organizational growth plans
- Manage, track and promote employee engagement by building a mission-driven culture of improving patient’s lives built on teamwork, autonomy, interdependence and creative problem-solving
- Direct key technical decisions related to application and data model design.
- Understanding of data structures, TDD, and software engineering design patterns and principles.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of managing and leading high growth engineering organizations
- 5+ years experience in a scaling SaaS organization with opinions on how to grow engineering specifically
- 3+ years leading 2+ engineering teams
- 7+ years prior programming experience
- Experience in healthcare: HL7, FHIR, HIPAA and other healthcare compliance constraints.
- Experience building and supporting multi-tenant solutions in a SaaS model
- Experience delivering in agile and other modern development methodologies
- Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with other departments and leadership
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be located in the continental US for the duration of the employment
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with our technology: ruby on rails, react, mirth
- Knowledge in container technology, infrastructure as code, and cloud-based engineering practices.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Remote-First Company with the option to work at our New York City office
- Equity Incentive Plan
- Annual Company-Wide Bonus (up to 15%)
- Flexible Vacation Policy
- Summer Fridays - 5 Fridays Off During Summer (Separate From PTO)
- Monthly Internet Stipend
- Annual Home Office Stipend
- Co-Working Space Reimbursement
- Annual stipend for education and development
Base Salary Bands
Senior Engineering Manager: $225,000 - $260,000
Director: $240,000 - $300,000
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