Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer UK

Lyrebird Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic healthcare technology company is seeking a Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer to spearhead technical deployments in the UK market. This role involves collaborating closely with early customers to customize and optimize the platform while contributing hands-on across both frontend and backend tasks. The ideal candidate should possess over 5 years of experience, strong startup exposure, and excellent communication skills. This position offers an opportunity for growth into a leadership role as the UK team expands.

Benefits

High trust environment

Direct impact on company growth

Path to leadership positions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a related field.
• Strong startup experience, ideally in early or growth stages.
• Prior leadership experience, capable of mentoring.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments with non-technical customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery and deployments with UK customers.
• Own integrations and configurations end-to-end.
• Collaborate closely with the Australian engineering team.
• Establish best practices and mentor local engineers.

Skills

Startup experience

Technical leadership

Customer interaction

Project ownership

Problem-solving

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AWS

GitHub

Terraform

Job description

About Lyrebird Health

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

They trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience. We value that trust above all else and strive to earn it while continuing to amaze our users.

The Role

We’re looking for a Founding Forward‑Deployed Engineer to lead technical delivery on the ground in the UK.

This is not a traditional backend or frontend role.

You’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and customers - owning deployments, shaping solutions with early UK partners, and feeding real‑world insight directly back into the core platform.

You will be one of the first engineering hires in the UK, with clear scope to evolve into a Team Lead / Engineering Manager as the local team grows.

What You’ll Do

• Forward Deployment & Customer Delivery Work
• Directly with early UK customers to deploy, customise, and optimise Lyrebird’s platform
• Translate customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions
• Own integrations, configuration, and implementation quality end‑to‑end
• Be comfortable operating in imperfect, ambiguous environments

Build & Ship Product

• Contribute hands‑on across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and the Australian engineering team
• Move fast, ship often, and raise the bar on quality and reliability

Technical Leadership

• Act as the technical anchor for the UK market
• Establish best practices around delivery, testing, and deployment
• Mentor future UK engineers and help shape the local team
• Influence architecture decisions as the product and customer base scales

What We’re Looking For

• 5 years + experience
• Strong startup experience (early or growth stage preferred)
• Prior team leadership or team‑building experience
• Comfortable owning projects from problem definition through to production
• Experience working directly with non‑technical stakeholders or customers

Tech Stack

You don’t need to tick every box, but you should be strong across most:

• Frontend:TypeScriptReact
• Backend: TypeScript
• Node.js

Infrastructure / Cloud

• AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Tooling & Platform

• GitHubEarly exposure or interest in LLM tooling such as LangChain, LangFuse, LangSmith

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Python (particularly for ML or data pipelines)CI/CD pipelinesBroader DevOps exposure

Who You Are

• You enjoy being close to customers, not hidden behind tickets
• You take ownership and finish what you start
• You’re pragmatic - you know when “perfect” slows progress
• You’re energised by building something from the ground up
• You want influence, not just a backlog

Why This Role Is Different

• Founding engineering role in a new market
• Direct impact on company growth and product direction
• Clear path to UK Engineering Lead / Team Lead
• High trust, high ownership environment
• Work on meaningful problems in healthcare, at real scale

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.