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Forward Deployed Engineer

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About the Role

This is a high-ownership engineering role at an early-stage healthtech AI company building a payer intelligence platform for procedure-heavy specialties like Vascular Surgery, Interventional Cardiology, and Interventional Radiology. You'll sit at the intersection of product and client, owning the integration layer between the platform and the real-world provider and insurance systems it serves. Your work will directly shape how surgical practices operate day-to-day.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain integrations with provider practices and insurance systems using APIs, scrapers, and RPA where needed.
  • Join client discovery sessions with the founding team to map workflows and translate them into clear technical requirements.
  • Ship custom integrations quickly and iterate based on real-world feedback from live deployments.
  • Contribute to core product development when integration work isn't the primary bottleneck.
  • Develop deep working knowledge of the US provider/payer landscape over time.

What We're Looking For

  • 2–5 years of full-stack engineering experience building and shipping production features end-to-end.
  • Startup background with broad ownership across discovery, development, and delivery in small teams.
  • Proven experience integrating with third-party APIs.
  • Proficiency in Python and FastAPI (or equivalent backend frameworks) and React + TypeScript (or equivalent frontend).
  • Active daily use of AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) with shipped production work to show for it.
  • Strong communication skills — comfortable articulating technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong pluses: experience with web scrapers or RPA, US healthcare or provider/payer systems background, AWS or GCP infrastructure, and production LLM application development.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000–$230,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

Hybrid — based in New York City, NY. In-person presence required when called upon, with some travel expected.

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