Forward Deployed Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with strong backend, API, data modeling, and SQL skills
• Experience taking a complex third-party integration live with the technical team on the other side
• Evidence that you’ve built software around a customer’s workflow and improved it after they used it
• Enjoyment of customer work. You can investigate an unclear problem, explain tradeoffs, and decide what to build without waiting for a complete spec
• You’ve founded a company or been an early engineer who owned the messy parts
• You’ve worked with EHRs, HL7, or FHIR. Strong engineering and integration judgment matters more than healthcare experience

What the job involves

• Build software with hospital teams, then turn what works into product
• HealthLeap helps clinicians find patients who need attention first
• We’re live at 40+ hospitals and plan to add another 100
• Each hospital has its own systems, API quirks, and clinical workflows
• You’ll work directly with hospital IT and clinical teams to understand what they need
• Much of the job is building and running integrations
• Some problems call for more: a tool to help a hospital inspect its data, analytics for a clinical team, or a workflow built around how that hospital works
• You’ll build those solutions and make the useful patterns reusable
• Our stack is Python and TypeScript
• Own the engineering work behind hospital integrations, from technical discovery through reliable production data
• Build and debug connections to record systems, including authentication, APIs, data mapping, and monitoring
• Work with hospital teams to investigate problems and test solutions with the people who use them
• Build customer tools or analytics when the standard product does not yet meet a hospital’s needs
• Turn repeated requests into reusable connectors, validation tools, and product features

The application process

• No LeetCode or puzzles. Use the tools you’d use on the job, including AI
• Intro call
• System design
• Take-home exercise
• Onsite with the team in San Francisco
• We decide the same week as the onsite

Benefits

• Compensation: Market-leading salaries - we want the best
• Equity: Meaningful ownership in an early-stage company
• Healthcare: 100% of premiums covered for employees
• Unlimited PTO: Unlimited, with recommended minimum of 20 days
• 401(k): We match 4% - your future matters
• Equipment: Laptop + budget to set up your home office