Forward Deployed Engineer

ABOUT US A Specialty Path to Good Health

Upperline Health is the nation's largest provider group dedicated to lower extremity, wound and vascular care. Founded in 2017 with the ambitious goal of transforming specialty care, Upperline Health is a pioneer in bringing value-based care models into specialty care. Upperline delivers a more efficient path for patients to receive consistent and effective treatment for chronic illnesses.

Upperline Health providers coordinate patients' care among a team of specialists -- physicians, advanced practice providers, care navigators, pharmacists, dieticians, and social workers for integrated treatment that addresses patients' immediate and long-term health needs.

Upperline also brings its technology platform to partner organizations. Making that platform work inside a partner's four walls, seamlessly, for their patients and their providers, is the focus of this role.

Upperline Health is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed directly with our partner organizations, building and adapting technology solutions in the field so that Upperline's platform delivers real value inside partner practices as we scale our specialty value-based care model.

You will work on-site and remotely alongside a few partners and their CTOs and technology teams, as well as the operations leaders, to understand workflow gaps first hand and then rapidly build, configure, and iterate on the solutions that close them — from data feeds and EMR integrations to patient-facing experiences and custom applications. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery, translating what is happening on the ground into working software and data connectivity, often within days rather than a traditional multi-sprint cycle.

This work happens across organizational boundaries. You will earn technical credibility with people who do not report to Upperline, navigate partner security and vendor review, and make architectural decisions you can defend to two engineering teams  right individual will thrive in ambiguous environments, enjoy building alongside customers, and will want to help define an emerging function within a high-growth healthcare technology business.

This is not a solutions architecture role and it is not implementation consulting. You will design it, build it, ship it, and remain accountable for whether it gets used.

• Establish the data relationship with each partner: what Upperline needs, where it lives, how it reaches us, and how it stays current
• Build and operate the interfaces that make it real — EMR feeds (HL7v2 ADT/ORU, FHIR, CCDA), eligibility and claims data, and the SFTP and flat-file realities that still run much of healthcare
• Solve patient identity and matching across systems that were never designed to agree with each other

• Connect Upperline's platform to the partner's environment: identity and single sign-on, scheduling, clinical documentation, messaging, and reporting
• Decide what integrates, what gets replaced, and what runs in parallel, and defend the decision to both engineering organizations
• Partner with Upperline's Data & Analytics and Engineering teams so partner-built solutions align with broader technical architecture and data standards

• Extend and customize Upperline applications to fit partner workflows, and build new interfaces or tooling where the gap is real
• Write production-quality code across the stack in a regulated, patient-facing environment
• Build for…