# Forward Deployed Engineer at Terra API

- Company: Terra API (YC W21)
- What the company does: API for developers and AIs to access health data. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://tryterra.co
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: London, England, GB / CY / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/R0hx4lm-forward-deployed-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/terra-api-forward-deployed-engineer/

## 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. This is not support. This is not consulting. You are an engineer who ships — the difference is that what you ship lives inside the customer's stack, powered by ours.

## What they're looking for

- 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 can prototype a webhook consumer, build an SDK wrapper, or debug a customer's data pipeline in the same afternoon
- You've worked directly with customers or partners in a technical capacity — you know how to translate "our data looks wrong" into a root cause and a fix
- You can context-switch between five different customer architectures in a week without losing depth on any of them
- You communicate clearly and concisely with both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders — executives, product managers, compliance teams

Tags: Engineering