Senior+ Software Engineer - Integrations Platform

Frontera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontera is seeking a Senior+ Software Engineer to lead the Integrations Platform, driving end-to-end ownership of data integration, mapping, and architecture within our ML/Data organization. You will work across Product, Clinical Operations, and external partners to solve complex problems and shape the data layer underpinning our platform and AI systems.

You will spend ~70% coding and architecture work, with remaining time aligning stakeholders and contributing to hiring as the integration

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in backend-leaning software engineering.
• Track record of owning technically complex projects end-to-end.
• Experience building and scaling integration platforms, APIs, or data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system design and distributed data flow.
• Experience with third-party integrations (healthcare systems, EHRs, partner APIs) is highly preferred.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, zero-to-one environments and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers, with potential to grow into a team lead.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling for tasks like data mapping and schema discovery is a plus.
• Strong product mindset focused on reliable, impactful solutions.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interest in healthcare/regulatory data (HIPAA, PHI) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as the tech lead for integrations with end-to-end ownership of discovery, data mapping, implementation, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Own the integration architecture, designing how Frontera connects with external healthcare systems and data sources.
• Identify problems worth solving and define the right solutions in collaboration with external teams and internal stakeholders.
• Apply an AI-informed lens to accelerate data mapping and schema discovery across partner systems.
• Shape the unified data model in collaboration with ML/Data, Product, Engineering, and Clinical Operations.
• Set clear standards for data quality, error handling, monitoring, and operational ownership as volume grows.
• Evaluate platform capabilities versus pragmatic partner-specific solutions.
• Mentor engineers, establish working norms, and contribute to hiring as the function scales.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Mentoring engineers

EHR integrations

AI tooling

Product mindset

Communication

Job description

The Role

Healthcare data is fragmented by default. Every provider, payer, EHR, referral source, and clinical system speaks a slightly different language. For Frontera to scale, both as a care delivery organization and as a technology platform, that fragmentation has to disappear behind a reliable, extensible integration and data layer. As a Senior+ Software Engineer on our Integrations Platform, you'll be the technical lead for that layer, owning it end-to-end. This role sits within our ML & Data organization because we don't view integrations as implementation plumbing. The systems we connect determine what data Frontera can access, how cleanly we can understand it, and ultimately what our product and AI systems can do with it. Every integration expands the number of organizations Frontera can work with, and adds breadth, fidelity, and context to the clinical data underlying the platform. That is the same longitudinal dataset that comes from operating real care alongside our own platform, not abstract transaction data. This is a hands-on role. You'll spend roughly 70% of your time building, deep in the code and shaping architecture decisions, and the remainder working across Product, Clinical Operations, ML/Data, and external partners to make sure we're solving the right problems. You'll be the engineering owner for integrations from day one. Managing people is not a requirement at the start, but as integration volume and complexity grow, there's a clear path to growing the team and stepping into formal lead responsibilities.

What You'll Do

• Act as the tech lead for integrations, with end-to-end ownership of discovery, data mapping, implementation, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability
• Own the integration architecture: design how Frontera connects with external healthcare systems (EHRs, partners, and other data sources), establishing reusable patterns and tooling rather than one-off builds for each new organization
• Identify which problems are worth solving, not just solve the ones you're assigned. You'll help define the right answer where the specification doesn't yet exist, working directly with external technical teams and internal stakeholders
• Bring an AI-informed lens to the work itself: use agentic tooling to accelerate data mapping and schema discovery across new partner systems, rather than treating each integration as a fully manual build. Judgment on when to automate discovery versus handle a partner's edge cases by hand is part of the craft
• Shape the unified data model underneath those integrations, in close partnership with ML/Data, Product, Engineering, and Clinical Operations
• Set clear standards for data quality, error handling, monitoring, and operational ownership as integration volume grows
• Help determine what should become platform capability versus what should be solved pragmatically for a specific partner or workflow
• Raise the technical bar for the team by mentoring engineers, setting working norms, and contributing to hiring as the function scales

Why This Matters

Better integrations mean faster onboarding of new organizations, less operational friction for clinicians and teams, and a more complete view of the care journey. They also improve the quality and usefulness of the data Frontera can learn from, because we operate care directly and that data reflects real clinical workflows and outcomes. As that dataset grows, it becomes increasingly important to how we evaluate care models, build AI systems, improve workflows, and differentiate the platform. This role is one of the foundational technical layers behind that scale strategy.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in backend-leaning software engineering, with strong experience building APIs, integration systems, or distributed backend services
• Track record of owning technically complex projects end-to-end, with ownership that extends beyond your own lane
• Experience building and scaling integration platforms, APIs, or data pipelines in production environments
• Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, and data flow between services
• Experience working with third-party integrations (e.g., healthcare systems, EHRs, SaaS platforms, or partner APIs) is highly preferred
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, zero-to-one environments, moving between architecture, hands-on implementation, partner conversations, and product tradeoffs
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers, formally or informally, is a plus; we're looking for someone who can grow into leading a team
• Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted tooling for tasks like schema mapping, data discovery, or accelerating integration work is a strong plus
• Strong product mindset, focused on building practical, reliable solutions that deliver real user and business impact
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Interest in healthcare and/or experience working with regulated data (HIPAA, PHI) is a plus

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