Hybrid Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

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About the role

  • Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer leading UK technical deployments for healthcare platform at Lyrebird Health. Collaborating with product and customers to optimize solutions and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Forward Deployment & Customer Delivery Work 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

Requirements

  • 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: Frontend: TypeScript, React; Backend: TypeScript; Node.js; Infrastructure/Cloud: AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS); Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Tooling & Platform: GitHub; Early 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 pipelines, Broader DevOps exposure

Benefits

  • 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

Job title

Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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