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Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (HL7/FHIR)

Phare R1 R37
CompanyPhare R1 R37
CategoryEngineering
LocationAustin
RemoteRemote
EmploymentNot stated
LevelNot stated
SalaryUSD 120k–300k
Posted7 Jul 2026
Last verified7 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (ashby)
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Description
About Us Phare Health is now part of R1 and its AI innovation engine, R37 Lab, bringing Phare’s frontier clinical reasoning technology together with one of the largest healthcare platforms in the U.S. At R37 and Phare, we are building the first AI-native Healthcare Revenue Operating System: a connected platform that reasons over full medical records, payer logic, and financial workflows to automate medical coding, billing, and follow-up. Backed by real customers, real data, and real distribution, we operate on a national scale. Our agentic AI systems already power production workflows across 95 of the top 100 U.S. health systems, processing hundreds of millions of patient encounters each year, including: - 180M+ Claims - 550M+ Patient encounters - 1.2B+ Workflow actions and outcomes each year This is startup-level ownership with enterprise-level impact. If you want to build AI that ships, scales, and measurably improves how healthcare works, this is the place to do it. The Role As our Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering team and apply advanced technical knowledge, broad knowledge of software engineering best practices, problem-solving, and creativity to build and maintain software products that achieve technical, business, and customer experience goals. To thrive in this role, you must have the ability and willingness to mentor and develop junior software engineers, and act as a thought leader and trusted subject-matter expert in a variety of technical domains. Here’s what you will experience working as a Staff Software Engineer: - Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders. - Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices. - Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance. - Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories. - Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments. - Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative. - Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team. Required Skills: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field - 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering experience - 5+ years of experience in a thought leadership role - Preferable experience working with clinical data, understanding the full life cycle of claims - Advanced knowledge of general engineering concepts, such as design patterns, with a focus on Big Data - Advanced understanding of Apache Spark, Python, Scala, and Databricks - Relevant experience with Epic, FHIR, and HL7 - Extensive experience with cloud environments, including Azure, GCP or AWS - Web services standards and related technology knowledge (XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, Rest.) - Understanding of modern software development, including version control, unit testing, and continuous integration & deployment - Healthcare technology industry experience - Agile development experience - Strong communication skills, with proven ability to present complex ideas and to document concisely Benefits - Top-of-market compensation (salary + equity) - Flexible PTO - Hybrid in-office (min. 3 days per week) - Comprehensive health benefits - 401(k) matching - Inspiring, brilliant, mission-driven teammates Hiring Flow - Intro call - your background & our mission alignment - Technical deep-dives - pseudo-coding exercise and systems design (not Leetcode) - Cross-Functional Interview - References -