Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer for Lyrebird Health focusing on technical delivery and customer collaboration. Contribute hands-on across frontend, backend, and infrastructure in the UK market.
Responsibilities
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
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
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 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
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