Forward Deployed Engineer - Team Lead
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineering Lead role embedding with customers to design and deploy AI-powered solutions for healthcare operations, shaping product direction and technical standards for the team.
Responsibilities
- Embed directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and success criteria
- Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions tailored to real operational problems
- Build and maintain production systems including APIs, integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Translate business requirements and customer needs into technical architectures and implementations
- Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, and judgment matter
- Identify patterns across customer deployments and feed insights back into core product and platform development
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design
- Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration
- Set technical direction and best practices for the FDE team, raising the bar on code quality, architecture decisions, and deployment rigor
- Mentor and unblock other FDEs, acting as a senior voice in the room on ambiguous technical and customer tradeoffs
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally as an FDE or in backend / systems-focused work
- A track record of being the senior, steady hand on a team, comfortable operating with less oversight and setting the bar for others
- Strong proficiency in Python (TypeScript / JavaScript experience is a plus)
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into working, production-ready systems
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in fast-changing environments
- Experience with AI systems (LLMs, vector databases, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks) is a strong plus
Skills
About Luminai
Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission…
Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission critical business processes. We're serving customers across insurance, healthcare, financial services, and more. Visit our website and see our customer case studies below: https://luminai.com Grateful to be backed by General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Moxxie Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Shrug Capital, Underscore VC, Weekend Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Yuri Sagalov, Chris Golda, Basement Fund, the founders and CEOs of Dropbox, Flexport, Notion, Deel, Front, Ramp, Coda, Rappi, Twitch, Lever, Algolia, Thredup, Pagerduty, Sendbird, the COO's of Stitchfix/Rippling, and the former heads of product of Twitter, Instagram, and Uber. We’ve raised $20 million till date. We’re hiring across all roles!
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