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Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York City$150k–$230kfulltimemidAdded yesterday

About this role

Join an early-stage healthtech startup as a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and maintain integrations between an AI-powered prior authorization platform and healthcare provider and insurance systems. You'll work closely with founders and clients to translate complex healthcare workflows into technical solutions, shipping integrations quickly while developing deep domain expertise in the US provider and payer landscape.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain integrations with provider practices and insurance systems using APIs, web scrapers, and RPA tooling
  • Participate in client discovery sessions to map workflows and translate them into technical requirements
  • Ship custom integrations rapidly and iterate based on feedback from live practice clients
  • Contribute to core product development when integration work is not the primary bottleneck
  • Develop working knowledge of US prior authorization, benefits verification, and appeals processes
  • Attend in-person team and client meetings with occasional travel as needed

What they're looking for

  • Python and FastAPI backend development
  • React with TypeScript frontend development
  • Third-party API integration end-to-end
  • Web scraping and RPA tooling
  • AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor)
  • AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure
  • Production LLM or AI application development
  • Technical communication with non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

  • High ownership in early-stage startup environment
  • Close collaboration with founding team and clients
  • Opportunity to impact healthcare workflows and compliance
  • Hybrid work arrangement in New York City
  • Deep domain expertise development in healthcare systems
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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.

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  • Walk us through an end-to-end third-party API integration you've built in production—what were the key challenges and how did you approach them?
  • How have you used AI coding tools like Claude or Cursor in shipped production work, and what specific problems did they help you solve faster?
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