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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Clara Corporation - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Node.Js, Systems Integration, TypeScript, ReactJS, Graphql - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/forward-deployed-engineer/11204584?handler=ApplyRedirect ## About the Role * 5+ years in a role that combined engineering with cross-functional or customer-facing work (FDE, solutions engineer, implementation engineer, technical CSM, product engineer, or similar) * Comfortable writing and reading TypeScript/Node.js. You don't need to be a senior IC, but you should be able to ship a feature, debug a bug, and review a PR * Strong written and verbal communication. You'll work with clinical operations leaders, compliance teams, sales, and engineers, sometimes in the same week * Track record of identifying product gaps from stakeholder conversations and driving them to resolution * Self-directed. You'll often work across teams with minimal oversight Preferred: * Healthcare experience - you've worked with clinical, operational, or compliance teams at a healthcare company. Comfortable with HIPAA, EHR workflows, and conversations with clinical operations leaders. * Experience integrating with different EHRs * Familiarity with AWS, GraphQL, React etc * Experience at an early-stage startup (Series A or earlier) ## Description We're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer to sit between our customers, our sales lead, and our engineering team. You'll own the customer-facing side of product development: understanding what healthcare providers actually need, shaping how Clara behaves for each customer, and shipping the changes that make Clara work in the real world. This is not a support role and not a pure engineering role. You'll talk to customers daily, write code when needed, and have direct influence over what we build next. What You'll Do * Support customer relationships post-sale. Act as a technical point of contact for live accounts alongside our sales lead and CS team. Help troubleshoot issues and make sure Clara is delivering value. * Translate stakeholder needs into product. Work with sales, clinical operations, and engineering to understand what customers and internal teams need. Identify which requests are one-off configuration vs. real product gaps. Bring that signal back to engineering. * Ship customer-specific changes. Clara's architecture is designed for per-customer customization through strategy files. You'll write and modify these strategies, tune prompts, adjust call flows, and ship small features end-to-end. * Drive product improvement. You'll have broad exposure across customers and internal teams. We expect you to form strong opinions about what to build next and advocate for them. * Support implementation. Help onboard new customers, EHR integration discovery, use case scoping, call flow design, go-live coordination. * Improve how we operate. Build internal tooling, write runbooks, identify recurring issues, and make the team more effective over time. ## Related Videos - [Putting the Graph In GraphQL With The Neo4j GraphQL Library](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/257-putting-the-graph-in-graphql-with-the-neo4j-graphql-library) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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