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OpenLoop

Senior Engineering Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

OpenLoop

. Own client outcomes across the portfolio, including deployment health, impact, trade-offs, and go-live dates .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering and team management, with a strong focus on client outcomes, migration programs, and technical integrations. Capable of leading teams, developing deployment strategies, and ensuring compliance in regulated domains.

Highest-signal resume keywords
8+ Years In Software Engineering3+ Years Managing EngineersDeep Technical Knowledge Of IntegrationsExperience Running Migration ProgramsSecurity-First Approach

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Hard Skills
API IntegrationWebhooksIdempotencySchema DriftHuman-In-The-Loop DesignAI Agent DevelopmentPerformance ManagementTeam GrowthDeployment StrategyRegulated-Domain Experience
Soft Skills
CommunicationCoachingRelationship ManagementPrioritizationLeadership
Tools & Technologies
SDKsCLIsDeployment PlaybookEHR IntegrationsFHIR
Certifications & Qualifications
BS In Computer ScienceBS In Engineering
Industry Keywords
HealthcareComplianceProfessional ServicesSolutions EngineeringOrganizational Change

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own client outcomes across the portfolio, including deployment health, impact, trade-offs, and go-live dates
  • Allocate capacity and assign new clients with clear ownership and prioritization decisions
  • Lead FDE pods through their technical architects
  • Migrate existing clients onto the Partner API in cohorts with implementation, platform engineering, and client teams
  • Own coordination with platform teams on capability gaps and stalled reviews
  • Ensure every go-live exits hypercare with documented, signed-off handoff
  • Hire and develop FDEs and Deployment Strategists, including coaching, performance conversations, leveling, promotions, and reviews
  • Own the agent roster, including adoption, measurement, deployment responsibilities, and human approval of outputs
  • Protect platform discipline by requiring additive or explicitly superseding changes
  • Partner with go-to-market teams before commitments and create dated plans from prioritized client needs
  • Write and scale the deployment playbook
  • Report into Engineering and collaborate daily with platform, implementation, customer success, and sales

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years in software engineering
  • 3+ years managing engineers, including hiring, performance, leveling, promotions, and team growth
  • Experience leading teams delivering in customers’ environments
  • Experience running a migration or re-platforming program with customers
  • Experience allocating a team against more demand than supply
  • Deep technical knowledge of integrations, including APIs, authentication, webhooks vs. polling, idempotency, schema drift, and reconciliation
  • Experience building with AI agents, including human-in-the-loop design, evaluation, and handling confident errors
  • Security-first approach with sensitive data and compliance as a design input
  • Experience communicating “no” or timeline limitations to customers or sales while maintaining relationships
  • Impact beyond own team through tooling, practices, or platform changes
  • Preferred: healthcare or other regulated-domain experience; EHR, scheduling, pharmacy, or payments integrations; FHIR a plus
  • Preferred: experience managing managers, organizational change, or scaling an FDE, solutions engineering, or professional services function
  • Preferred: developer platform experience with SDKs, CLIs, API conventions, and tested documentation
  • Preferred: comfort in pre-sales technical conversations
  • BS in CS or Engineering, or equivalent experience

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) + Company Match
  • Life Insurance
  • Pet insurance