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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Candid Health · San Francisco · On-site

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About Candid Health

Candid Health is your source of truth for revenue cycle management—track claims end-to-end, automate fixes, unlock insights, and scale digital health payments. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

At Candid Health, we’re searching for talented, customer-obsessed software engineers to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team. Our Forward team is placed at the critical intersection of technology, business strategy, and customer outcomes: they work side-by-side with our leadership, clients, and product teams to solve highly complex technical challenges that are critical to our customers.

What they're looking for

  • You have 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering
  • You are motivated by solving real-world problems that drive mission outcomes
  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a growth mindset
  • You are deeply empathetic and have a strong desire to solve problems for customers in a highly leveraged way that is accretive towards product strategy and builds trust along the way
  • You enjoy building software iteratively with subject matter experts, ultimately delivering an exceptional solution that solves the problem
  • You are a strong collaborator and influential engineer who communicates and partners well with internal and external clients
More about this role

At Candid Health, we’re searching for talented, customer-obsessed software engineers to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team. Our Forward team is placed at the critical intersection of technology, business strategy, and customer outcomes: they work side-by-side with our leadership, clients, and product teams to solve highly complex technical challenges that are critical to our customers. Their role isn't just to advise from the outside; it's to actively design, engineer, and integrate long-term, evolving software solutions that work with the client's technical landscape and drive real-world impact.

Design and implement solutions: Design and architect technical solutions in the core product that align with client needs. Leverage the latest AI/ML models and techniques to automate solutions in novel ways. Fix bugs, implement features, and solve the most critical problems our customers are facing across our entire platform.

Partner with customers and operations: Build solutions and relationships with the subject-matter experts, users, managers, and executives that rely on our platform in a way that builds trust. Serve as the technical expert for our products and services....

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