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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Sprinter Health
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Streaming, Backend, Production Code, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/e8dff37a-3944-45a2-b756-9aa4dc746d51

## About the Role

* 5+ years as a backend or full-stack software engineer shipping production systems
 * Led projects from architecture and design through implementation and launch
 * Built or integrated with external APIs, data pipelines, or partner systems
 * Worked in fast-moving startup environments where ambiguity, speed, and ownership were required
 * Partnered cross-functionally with product, ops, or non-technical stakeholders
 * Written clean, maintainable code while balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability

What gives you an edge:

 * 5+ years as a backend or full-stack software engineer shipping production systems
 * Led projects from architecture and design through implementation and launch
 * Built or integrated with external APIs, data pipelines, or partner systems
 * Worked in fast-moving startup environments where ambiguity, speed, and ownership were required
 * Partnered cross-functionally with product, ops, or non-technical stakeholders
 * Written clean, maintainable code while balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability

## Description

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to sit at the intersection of engineering, partners, and product. This role is ideal for a senior software engineer who has spent years building production systems and now wants to work closer to customers-without leaving hands-on engineering behind.

You'll work directly with strategic partners, operators, and internal product teams to deliver high-impact solutions quickly, while ensuring that bespoke work feeds back into scalable, reusable platform capabilities. This is not a support or solutions-only role: you'll write real production code, influence core architecture, and help shape the Partner Engineering roadmap.

This role requires someone who came up through a mid-senior SWE track and is comfortable operating in ambiguity, translating messy real-world constraints into durable software.

Office Location:

We are a hybrid company based in the Bay Area with offices in both San Francisco & Menlo Park. We care about work-life balance, and understand that there will be times where flexibility is needed.

What you will do:

 * Embed with strategic partners to understand technical, operational, and data workflows
 * Build backend and full-stack systems that power partner integrations and patient access
 * Translate bespoke partner needs into scalable, reusable platform features
 * Rapidly prototype and ship solutions while maintaining production-grade quality
 * Own partner-facing APIs, data flows, and onboarding integrations end to end
 * Collaborate closely with product, ops, data, and clinical teams to launch real-world solutions
 * Feed partner learnings back into product strategy and platform architecture
 * Act as a technical owner for complex integrations from discovery through rollout


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