Forward Deployed Engineer

HealthLeap•San Francisco, CA

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

HealthLeap is building the AI operating system that helps care teams identify hospitalized patients who need intervention, improving health outcomes and generating revenue. The company has experienced significant growth in contracted revenue and expanded across leading health systems. HealthLeap is a SF-based company with approximately 25 employees and has raised over $32M. This role involves building software with hospital teams and translating successful solutions into product features. The company's mission is to close gaps that traditional workflows and clinician capacity cannot address.

Requirements

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.
Ability to investigate an unclear problem, explain tradeoffs, and decide what to build without waiting for a complete spec.

Nice To Haves

Founded a company or been an early engineer who owned the messy parts.
Worked with EHRs, HL7, or FHIR.
Strong engineering and integration judgment matters more than healthcare experience.

Responsibilities

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.