Terra API Seed

Forward Deployed Engineer

London On-site $100K–$180K Mid (3-5 yrs) Added Jun 22

About the role

You are the technical bridge between Terra's platform and our highest-value customers. You embed directly with their engineering and product teams to architect, integrate, and optimize their use of Terra's health data infrastructure. Terra is the infrastructure layer for health data access, delivering more than 30 billion activities per year. Day-to-day, you will: Design integration architectures for complex health data use cases. Write production code in the customer's environment: building webhook consumers, data transformation layers, authentication flows, and retry logic against Terra's API. Debug across the full stack. Own the technical relationship with 3-5 strategic accounts simultaneously. Translate field learnings into product improvements. Build reference implementations, SDKs, and sample apps. Scope and qualify technical requirements during the sales cycle. Must-Haves: 3+ years building software, with direct experience designing and consuming REST APIs at scale. You've owned integrations end-to-end: auth flows (OAuth 2.0, API keys), webhook architectures, error handling, retry logic, idempotency. Strong in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript. You've worked directly with customers or partners in a technical capacity. Strong Signals: Experience with health, fitness, or biomedical data. Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, FHIR, HL7. Background in developer tools, platform engineering, or API-first products.

Industry

Health Data Infrastructure / API Platform

Top skills for this role

  • REST API + webhook engineering (OAuth 2.0
  • HMAC
  • event-driven architectures)
  • 2. Customer technical onboarding and lifecycle ownership (sandbox to production)
  • 3. Developer tooling and documentation (reference implementations in Python/Node.js
  • SDK best practices)

Languages

PythonJavaScript/TypeScript (Go and Java desirable)

Frameworks & tools

REST APIsOAuth 2.0webhooks (HMAC/SHA-256 signature verification)Flask/ExpressAWSWebSocket protocols

AI / ML skills

Not required (AI Engineer is separate role)Terra's Tyran AI health agents provide contextual background

Customer skills

Technical onboarding from sandbox through production deployment, customer lifecycle ownership, incident communication and management, developer documentation and SDK authoring, translating customer feedback into product requirements

Domain knowledge

Health wearables/fitness app data; HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA compliance; data normalization across heterogeneous device schemas (preferred not required)

Travel: Not specified
Equity: 0.01%–0.15% equity

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