Terra API is a company focused on health data infrastructure, and they are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a technical bridge between their platform and high-value customers. The role involves designing integration architectures, writing production code, debugging across the full stack, and managing technical relationships with strategic accounts.

Responsibilities:

Design integration architectures for complex health data use cases — determining which Terra endpoints, webhook configurations, and data models map to the customer's product requirements
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 — from a Garmin watch failing to sync, to a webhook payload arriving with unexpected schema, to a customer's data pipeline dropping events
Own the technical relationship with 3–5 strategic accounts simultaneously, serving as their dedicated Terra expert from pre-sales scoping through production go-live and beyond
Translate field learnings into product — when you see three customers struggling with the same edge case in sleep data normalization, you don't just fix it for them; you work with our engineering team to fix it in the platform
Build reference implementations, SDKs, and sample apps that make Terra's API easier for every developer, not just your accounts
Scope and qualify technical requirements during the sales cycle — determining whether a prospect's use case fits Terra's data model, estimating API call volumes, and defining integration timelines

Requirements:

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
Experience with health, fitness, or biomedical data — you know what HRV is, why sleep staging is hard, and what makes wearable data noisy
Familiarity with health data standards and compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, FHIR, HL7
Background in developer tools, platform engineering, or API-first products
You've worked at or with companies in the wearables, digital health, or health AI space
Experience building data pipelines that handle real-time streaming and batch backfill at scale
You've contributed to developer documentation, sample code, or open-source SDKs
You are an athlete. You train, you compete, you push limits — or at the very least, you are obsessed with quantifying your own data

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