Lyrebird Health

Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer

Lyrebird Health

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudJavaScriptNode.jsPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Forward Deployment & Customer Delivery Work
  • Directly with early UK customers to deploy, customise, and optimise Lyrebird’s platform
  • Translate customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions
  • Own integrations, configuration, and implementation quality end-to-end
  • Be comfortable operating in imperfect, ambiguous environments
  • Build & Ship Product
  • Contribute hands-on across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and the Australian engineering team
  • Move fast, ship often, and raise the bar on quality and reliability
  • Technical Leadership
  • Act as the technical anchor for the UK market
  • Establish best practices around delivery, testing, and deployment
  • Mentor future UK engineers and help shape the local team
  • Influence architecture decisions as the product and customer base scales

Requirements

  • 5 years + experience
  • Strong startup experience (early or growth stage preferred)
  • Prior team leadership or team-building experience
  • Comfortable owning projects from problem definition through to production
  • Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders or customers
  • Tech Stack
  • You don’t need to tick every box, but you should be strong across most:
  • Frontend:TypeScriptReact
  • Backend: TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Infrastructure / Cloud
  • AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Tooling & Platform
  • GitHubEarly exposure or interest in LLM tooling such as LangChain, LangFuse, LangSmith
  • Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)
  • Python (particularly for ML or data pipelines)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Broader DevOps exposure
Benefits
  • Founding engineering role in a new market
  • Direct impact on company growth and product direction
  • Clear path to UK Engineering Lead / Team Lead
  • High trust, high ownership environment
  • Work on meaningful problems in healthcare, at real scale

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
TypeScriptReactNode.jsAWSTerraformCI/CDPythonDevOpsLLM toolinginfrastructure
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationproject ownershipadaptabilityinfluenceteam-buildingcustomer engagement