Forward Deployed Engineer
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Propela Tech
US
Summary
You will embed with client teams to define requirements, architect custom software solutions, and deliver integrations across complex healthcare systems. Additionally, you will lead distributed development teams, manage code quality, and oversee the full lifecycle of production applications.
Job Description
Location: Remote, United States. Office space available in Cleveland, Ohio.
Type: Full-Time
Reports to: Steven Feld, Chief Strategy Officer
Travel: Periodic travel to client sites, approximately 10%
Compensation: $225,000 to $275,000, commensurate with experience
About Propela Tech
Propela Tech is a healthcare-focused advisory and technology firm. We help healthcare operators streamline operations, unlock their data, and scale through custom-built software and systems integration. Our team pairs engineers with former healthcare operators, which shapes how we scope, build, and deliver.
Role Summary
Forward deployed engineering means working inside the client's operation rather than at a distance from it. You will embed with client teams, establish requirements through direct observation of how the work is performed, and design and deliver systems against the constraints you find. Engagements center on custom applications and integrations across EHRs, ATSs, billing platforms, and legacy systems, frequently with limited or no documentation.
You own delivery end to end: discovery, architecture, implementation, launch, and production operation. You also lead a distributed team of onshore and offshore developers and are accountable for what that team ships. You serve as the senior technical presence in client conversations, including scoping and estimation.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery within client operations. Define requirements, success criteria, and scope through direct engagement with the people performing the work.
- Produce architecture diagrams, sequence flows, and data models. Select the simplest design that satisfies the requirement and document the trade-offs.
- Architect and build full stack applications, backend services, and integrations.
- Deliver integrations against EHRs, ATSs, billing platforms, and legacy systems, including undocumented and unsupported interfaces.
- Prototype and iterate with client users to shorten the cycle between requirement and working software.
- Lead and mentor onshore and offshore developers. Own code quality, delivery velocity, and engineering standards.
- Drive code review, architecture decisions, and sprint planning.
- Codify recurring solutions into reusable frameworks and internal tooling.
- Support scoping, estimation, and expansion discussions with client stakeholders.
- Operate what you launch, including monitoring, incident response, and post-deployment iteration.
Qualifications Required
- Seven or more years in full stack software development.
- Three or more years leading development teams and owning technical delivery.
- Demonstrated ownership of architecture and delivery from concept through production.
- Proficiency in Python, Node.js, React, SQL Server or MySQL, and AWS.
- Ability to work directly with non-technical stakeholders and translate operational requirements into technical decisions.
Preferred
- Healthcare domain experience, particularly EHR, revenue cycle, or claims data.
- Prior experience embedded on-site with clients or in a similar customer-facing engineering role.
- Experience managing distributed and offshore engineering teams.
Tech Stack
Items marked with an asterisk are required. Familiarity with the remainder is preferred.
Area - Technologies
- Backend: Python*, Node.js*, Java, .NET
- Frontend: React*, TypeScript, Angular, Tailwind
- Databases: SQL Server*, MySQL*, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Cloud and DevOps: AWS*, Azure, Docker, GitHub Actions
- CRM and ERP: Salesforce, QuickBooks
- Reporting: Power BI
- Healthcare Data: HL7, FHIR, X12/EDI (837, 835), SFTP and flat-file interfaces
Our Core Values
- Solution-Oriented: We tackle every challenge with a problem-solving mindset.
- Extreme Ownership: We take full responsibility for our work, outcomes, and commitments.
- Grit, Speed & Results: We move fast, stay resourceful, and focus relentlessly on outcomes.
- Show Up Strong: We bring our best selves and elevate the team.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Opportunities for rapid growth and leadership
What if your technology partner actually understood the ins and outs of your business’s operations? Not just nodding-along-in-meetings understood, but built-and-scaled-multiple-businesses understood?
Propela combines deep operations know-how with powerful custom technology to solve businesses’ toughest challenges.
Unlike tech vendors who simply write code to specifications, or large healthcare IT providers offering rigid off-the-shelf products, Propela serves as a true operational partner who understands the complex challenges of their clients first, then creates tailored technology solutions that enable growth.
Founded by two childhood friends turned business partners, we didn't set out to be a technology company. We started as business operators who got fed up with bad software—wrestling with complex data and systems that seemed designed to make everything harder instead of easier.
When we couldn't find the solutions we needed, we learned to build them ourselves. Now, Propela is a 40-person team of business-savvy technologists on a mission to transform operational friction into your competitive advantage by developing custom software that actually works—built at the speed of business by people who've walked in your shoes.
Your vision, our expertise, no translation needed.
—
If you're tired of technology that doesn't understand your business, let's talk. Schedule a discovery call to discuss your operational challenges and how we can help solve them.
Contact us at [email protected] or call (216) 928-1910 to get started.
Visit www.propela.tech to learn more about our approach and see case studies of how we've helped healthcare organizations like yours.
Founded
2023
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Software Development
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Cleveland, Ohio
What if your technology partner actually understood the ins and outs of your business’s operations? Not just nodding-along-in-meetings understood, but built-and-scaled-multiple-businesses understood?
Propela combines deep operations know-how with powerful custom technology to solve businesses’ toughest challenges.
Unlike tech vendors who simply write code to specifications, or large healthcare IT providers offering rigid off-the-shelf products, Propela serves as a true operational partner who understands the complex challenges of their clients first, then creates tailored technology solutions that enable growth.
Founded by two childhood friends turned business partners, we didn't set out to be a technology company. We started as business operators who got fed up with bad software—wrestling with complex data and systems that seemed designed to make everything harder instead of easier.
When we couldn't find the solutions we needed, we learned to build them ourselves. Now, Propela is a 40-person team of business-savvy technologists on a mission to transform operational friction into your competitive advantage by developing custom software that actually works—built at the speed of business by people who've walked in your shoes.
Your vision, our expertise, no translation needed.
—
If you're tired of technology that doesn't understand your business, let's talk. Schedule a discovery call to discuss your operational challenges and how we can help solve them.
Contact us at [email protected] or call (216) 928-1910 to get started.
Visit www.propela.tech to learn more about our approach and see case studies of how we've helped healthcare organizations like yours.
Founded
2023
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Software Development
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Cleveland, Ohio
