Lead, Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary technical and consultative engineering leader.

• Collaborate directly with client stakeholders to comprehend business challenges, workflows, limitations, and technical specifications.

• Facilitate discovery sessions and technical workshops.

• Convert business needs into effective technical solutions.

• Design and oversee data architecture utilizing PostgreSQL and Snowflake.

• Develop and enhance a secure, scalable, production-ready platform based on an existing prototype.

• Make architectural choices related to backend services, APIs, data, integrations, infrastructure, security, and reliability.

• Write production-quality Python services and APIs as necessary.

• Establish technical guidance alongside platform, data, backend, and optimization engineers.

• Assist in defining the roadmap from prototype through MVP to production.

• Identify and convey technical risks, gaps, dependencies, and trade-offs.

• Collaborate with the client's current architect and engineering team.

• Develop production engineering practices encompassing observability, security, deployment, reliability, and maintainability.

• Take ownership of outcomes and delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a similar technical field, with senior-level oversight of production systems.

• Strong practical software engineering experience, especially with Python and backend services/APIs.

• Robust system design and architecture capabilities, with a history of creating production-grade distributed systems.

• Experience in transforming an existing prototype, proof of concept, or MVP into a production system.

• Proven history of working directly with clients or business stakeholders to uncover requirements and shape technical solutions.

• Experience in leading technical discussions, workshops, design sessions, or architecture reviews with senior stakeholders.

• Ability to convert business requirements and processes into technical architecture and implementation strategies.

• Strong knowledge of scalability, reliability, security, observability, deployment, and data architecture.

• Capable of being both consultative and hands-on.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

• Comfortable operating in a client-facing, dynamic environment where requirements may evolve.

• Candidates must reside in contiguous US states.

• Candidates should be US citizens, Green Card Holders, or sole proprietors of their own LLC company.

• Candidates requiring visa sponsorship are not eligible.

• Preferred qualifications include experience in healthcare, HIPAA/PHI, workforce management, HRIS/ERP/EMR/EHR, enterprise systems, optimization/ML, and related tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract engagement via the Gigster network, with full-time commitment expected.

• Initial term aligned with the production build, with a likely extension as the pod model grows across business units.

• Competitive compensation determined by experience and location.