FDE_Bristol

Newpage; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote-work

People-first culture

Smart collaboration

Work-life balance

Growth opportunities

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Newpage is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who will design and ship AI-powered software end-to-end, sit close to clients, and own delivery from ideation to production. You’ll work with Claude/Cursor/agents, build in Python/TypeScript, and deploy on cloud platforms.

Join a remote-first team that emphasizes growth, flexibility, and impactful health-tech solutions. A founder’s mindset and strong collaboration are valued as you tackle ambiguous, high-impact challenges.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production AI/agentic apps (full-stack)
• Hands-on with agents and tool orchestration
• Proficient in Python or TypeScript
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval pipelines
• Cloud-native deployment with Docker/Kubernetes
• Strong emphasis on clean code, security, observability

Responsibilities

• Engage with business/clinical leaders to frame problems
• Develop end-to-end AI-powered software with prototypes
• Build modular backends and full-stack apps
• Ship production-ready agents and workflows
• Collaborate with product/design/clients to deliver value
• Mentor on system design and AI engineering best practices

Skills

AI/agentic development

Python/TypeScript

End-to-end AI systems

Cloud deployment (AWS/Azure/Vercel)

TDD/clean code

MLOps

Public writing/ talks

Healthcare/domain exposure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/ML

Tools

Next.js

FastAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who build with AI at the core. You’ll turn ambiguous problems into production-ready software, owning everything from ideation to deployment using modern AI tooling, TypeScript, and Python.

Flexible and remote work

Employee-centric culture

Work-life balance

Generous earnings

Opportunities for growth

About Newpage Solutions

Newpage Solutions is a global digital health innovation company helping people live longer, healthier lives. We partner with life sciences organizations—including pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare leaders to build transformative AI and data-driven technologies addressing real-world health challenges.

From strategy and research to UX design and agile development, we deliver and validate impactful solutions using lean, human-centered practices.

We are proud to be Great Place to Work® certified for three consecutive years, hold a top Glassdoor rating, and were named among the "Top 50 Promising Healthcare Solution Providers" by CIO Review.

As a remote-first company, we foster creativity, continuous learning, and inclusivity, creating an environment where bold ideas thrive and make a measurable difference in people’s lives.

Newpage looks for candidates who are invested in long-term impact. Applications with a pattern of frequent job changes may not align with the values we prioritize.

Your Mission

We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers who treat AI as the substrate of how software gets built—not a tool to be cautious of, not something they are "exploring," but the medium they work in.

You will sit close to clients and product leaders, reframe vague problems into something concrete, and ship working software end-to-end. You won't wait for a refined backlog, a PM in the middle, or a separate platform team. You will shape the idea, build the thing, and stand it up in production yourself.

This is a builder-first individual-contributor role for engineers who live at the current edge of AI development and work fluently with Claude Code, Cursor, agents, eval harnesses, MCP, and modern TypeScript and Python.

What You’ll Do

Problem / Opportunity Discovery

• Sit with a business or clinical leader and reframe an idea or problem into something concrete and buildable.
• Know what to build by the end of the conversation; have a working prototype to react to by the end of the week.
• Partner closely with product, design, and client stakeholders to translate ambiguous ideas into software that ships.
• Demo live without a slide deck. Reframe problems out loud. Don't get stuck waiting for someone else to make the decision.
• Lead POCs, innovation sprints, and internal research experiments to validate emerging AI techniques.

Build (fast) with AI

• When the brief is clear, head down and produce.
• Build modular backends in Python or TypeScript aligned with clean architecture, OOP, SOLID, and domain-driven design.
• Createfullstackapplications, APIs, agents, workflows, and similar systems using frameworks such as Next.js, React,FastAPI,Fastify,FastMCP, and Hono.
• Architect and ship production‑grade agentic applications usingLangGraph,AutoGen, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Assistants, or your own orchestration layer.
• Integrate frontier and self‑hosted LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open‑weight models) with tools, data, and external systems through MCP and custom connectors.
• Apply RAG techniques where they actuallyhelp:vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma,Weaviate,pgvector), hybrid retrieval withElasticSearchorSolr, and BM25 + similarity search.
• Work across relational, document, key‑value, and graph stores as the problem demands; use event‑driven patterns where they fit, not by default.
• Design prompt and context engineering frameworks thatoptimizeaccuracy, repeatability, cost, and latency.
• Use AI‑assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex) through structured workflows, native instructions, templates, and sub‑agents—with discipline and review.
• Fine‑tune or adapt models where the problem genuinely calls for it.
• Spin up the infra, write the evals, wire up the MCP servers, deploy the agents, and harden the bits that survive contact with real users.
• Deploy on AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, orVercelusing containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) or serverless—chosen for fit, not preference.
• Treat evals as a first‑class discipline: hands‑on harnesses, not theoretical frameworks. Build with a clear‑eyed view of where current AI tooling helps and where it falls short.
• Apply engineering practices that hold up in production: TDD, secrets management and rotation, SAST/DAST, structured logging, metrics, tracing, and automated CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Own what you build end‑to‑end, including the infrastructure and operations that keep it running.
• Mentor others on system design, agentic patterns, and AI engineering best practices.

What You Bring

Required

• 3+ years relevant experience building production applications using AI / agentic development approaches-fullstack applications, agents, workflows, MCPs, and more.
• Hands‑on experience with agents, not just prompted models. You have wired tools to a model and let it run multi‑step using LangGraph, AutoGen, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Assistants, or your own orchestration.
• Active, structured use of AI‑assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) with demonstrable workflows, sub‑agents, skills, and innovative approaches.
• Strong Python or TypeScript, with OOP, SOLID, 12‑factor application development, and microservice architecture. You've built Next.js applications, FastAPI services, and similar.
• End‑to‑end implementation experience with vector databases, retrieval pipelines, and eval harnesses.
• Cloud‑native deployment experience across at least one of AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, or Vercel‑with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
• A no‑compromise attitude on clean code, TDD, security, observability, scalability, performance, and cost.
• A deep working understanding of how LLMs behave-and where they break-and how to optimize accuracy, latency, and cost.
• Clear writing and a willingness to reframe problems in conversation rather than wait for someone else to define them.
• A real, recent trail of built things: GitHub, a portfolio, side projects, indie tools, or OSS contributions.
• A founder's mindset and genuine appetite for ambiguous, high‑impact technical challenges.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
• Public writing, talks, or threads about building with AI.
• MLOpsand model serving experience (BentoML,MLflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).
• Streaming and batch ingestion pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Beam, Glue).
• Healthcare or life sciences domain exposure.
• AWS Professional certification or other relevant industry certifications.

What We Offer

At Newpage, we’re building a company that works smart and grows with agility—where driven individuals come together to do work that matters. We offer:

• Flexible, remote‑first work – Choose where you work best while staying connected to a global, collaborative team.
• A people‑first culture – Supportive peers, open communication, and a strong sense of belonging.
• Smart, purposeful collaboration – Work with talented colleagues to create technologies that solve meaningful business challenges.
• Balance that lasts – We respect your time and support a healthy integration of work and life.
• Room to grow – Opportunities for learning, leadership, and career development, shaped around you.
• Meaningful rewards – Competitive compensation that recognizes both contribution and potential.

More about Newpage

Newpage is a digital health solutions company. We devote ourselves to advancing the quality of life by enhancing health and optimizing the longevity of people. We do this by, passionately building futuristic technologies for global organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. We partake at every stage from problem definition, strategy & service design, user research, UX design, and agile software development – utilizing lean practices to deliver and validate highly innovative digital health solutions that drive user value and business transformation.

Newpage is recognized by ‘CIO’s Review’ as“Top 50 Promising Healthcare Solution Providers”andGreat Place to Work Certified (GPTW) 2023 & 2024.