Forward Deployed Engineer

Lyrebird Health; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company based in the United Kingdom is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to create integrations and features for healthcare clients. This hybrid role requires strong coding skills in TypeScript and JavaScript, with an emphasis on collaboration across teams. The engineer will contribute to our core platform, helping to close enterprise deals. If you are ready to make a tangible impact in healthcare tech, we’d love to hear from you!

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs and webhook-based systems.
• Application-focused developer with baseline skills in AWS and networking.
• Experience or interest in healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, MLLP) is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Help close large enterprise deals by building trust with customer stakeholders.
• Ship tailored integrations and guide technical solutioning that aligns with our core platform.
• Reduce deal friction and accelerate time-to-value for new enterprise customers.

Skills

Strong coding skills in TypeScript

Strong coding skills in JavaScript

Familiarity with C#

Familiarity with PHP

Familiarity with Java

Experience with REST APIs

Baseline skills in AWS

Understanding of OAuth and token-based auth

Interest in healthcare data standards

Awareness of data residency and privacy concerns

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer

UK based

About the Role

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver customer‑specific integrations and features for doctors, hospitals, and enterprise health clients.

This is a hybrid role blending software development, solution prototyping, and trusted technical advisory.

You’ll work closely with the pre‑sales and integrations teams to unblock deals, accelerate onboarding, and build reusable solutions that inform our product roadmap. Your code will often ship in our core platform and your work will directly impact enterprise wins.

About us

Lyrebird Health is transforming the quality and accessibility of healthcare by automating clinicians’ most time‑consuming tasks. Thousands of clinicians use Lyrebird across many disciplines — and this number is increasing every day.

These clinicians trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to earn trust while continuing to amaze our users.

What You’ll Own

• Design and develop integrations across HL7, FHIR, REST APIs, SSO, and EMRs
• Build SDKs, connectors, and custom features that scale with our product vision
• Prototype and deliver integration solutions that resolve technical blockers during pre‑sales.
• Contribute production‑grade code, with most work landing in the core platform
• Write clear technical documentation, implementation guides, and API references
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Pre‑Sales teams
• Work to customer schedules across Australia, UK, and UAE
• Occasional travel for key accounts or integrations (~2–3 times/year)
• Daily collaboration with Sales, Pre‑Sales, Product, Engineering, and Integration teams

Key Skills

• Strong coding skills in TypeScript and JavaScript
• Bonus: familiarity with C#, PHP, Java
• Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs and webhook‑based systems
• Application‑focused developer with baseline skills in AWS and networking
• Understands OAuth, token‑based auth, and secure integration practices
• Experience or interest in healthcare data standards (e.g. HL7, FHIR, MLLP) is a strong plus
• Awareness of data residency and privacy concerns in regulated sectors

Responsibilities

• Help us close large enterprise deals by building trust with customer stakeholders
• Shipping tailored integrations, and guiding technical solutioning that aligns with our core platform
• Success means being a technical force‑multiplier reducing deal friction and accelerating time‑to‑value for new enterprise customers

At Lyrebird, you won’t just write code — you’ll help shape the future of the human experience.

If you want to pioneer, to create, and to see your work touch lives directly, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re building a team that reflects the diversity of the people who’ll benefit from our work. We want Lyrebird to be a place where everyone feels safe, supported, and able to thrive. If you’re from an underrepresented background in tech, we especially encourage you to apply — even if you don’t meet every single requirement.