Clera
Forward Deployed Engineer
About this role
A forward-deployed engineer role at an early-stage healthtech AI startup building automation for healthcare provider compliance. You'll own the integration layer between the platform and real-world provider/payer systems, shipping custom APIs, scrapers, and integrations while working directly with founders and clients.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain integrations with provider practices and insurance systems using APIs, scrapers, and RPA
- Participate in client discovery sessions to map workflows and translate them into technical requirements
- Ship custom integrations quickly and iterate based on real-world feedback
- Contribute to core product development when integration work isn't the primary constraint
- Develop domain expertise in the US provider and payer landscape
- Own features or products from discovery through delivery
What they're looking for
- Python and FastAPI
- React and TypeScript
- Third-party API integration
- Full-stack development
- Web scraping and RPA
- AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure
- Startup product ownership mindset
- Stakeholder communication
Benefits
- Competitive salary of $150,000–$230,000 annually
- Early-stage equity opportunity
- Hybrid work arrangement (Los Angeles-based)
- High ownership and broad technical autonomy
- Direct impact on surgical practices and healthcare workflows
- Exposure to US healthcare systems and AI tooling
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you owned a feature from discovery to shipping in production—what was your process for gathering requirements and iterating?
- Describe your experience integrating third-party APIs into a product. How did you handle systems without well-documented or modern APIs?