Forward Deployed Engineer, Pharmacy Integrations
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Forward Deployed Engineer building APIs and backend integrations between Bask Health's telehealth platform and pharmacy systems. Supporting prescription workflows, fulfillment tracking, and reliable healthcare data exchange.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain integrations between Bask Health's platform and external pharmacy systems
- Work with engineering, product, and pharmacy operations teams to understand technical integration requirements
- Develop backend services, APIs, and integration functionality using TypeScript, Node.js, or comparable technologies
- Support workflows involving prescription transmission, pharmacy routing, and order processing
- Exchange prescription-related information between connected applications
- Track pharmacy order status and fulfillment updates
- Integrate external pharmacy services using REST APIs, webhooks, and other supported communication methods
- Implement data mapping and transformation between Bask's platform and pharmacy systems
- Synchronize prescription and fulfillment information reliably
- Investigate and troubleshoot prescription data, API requests, and integration failures
- Collaborate with backend engineers to improve pharmacy-related application services
- Work with SQL databases and application data to support integration workflows
- Develop automated processes that reduce repetitive pharmacy integration tasks
- Implement validation for accurate data exchange between systems
- Build error handling, retry mechanisms, and failure recovery processes
- Support secure authentication and authorization for pharmacy integrations
- Maintain controls for sensitive healthcare information
- Monitor integration reliability, processing failures, and data synchronization issues
- Develop tools improving visibility into pharmacy integration activity and system status
- Support technical discovery and implementation planning for new pharmacy connections
- Collaborate with pharmacy stakeholders on operational requirements and technical limitations
- Develop reusable integration components for multiple pharmacy partners
- Write automated tests for pharmacy integration workflows
- Document API requirements, data mappings, integration behavior, and troubleshooting procedures
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
- Improve integration performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Own pharmacy integration projects from development through deployment and maintenance
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, integrations engineering, forward deployed engineering, or a comparable hands-on technical role
- Strong programming experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience developing backend applications, APIs, or services using Node.js or comparable technologies
- Hands-on experience building integrations between software applications and third-party services
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, and common integration patterns
- Experience developing and maintaining production software
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing and event-driven workflows
- Experience working with SQL databases and relational data
- Understanding of data mapping, transformation, and synchronization between systems
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting API and integration issues
- Ability to translate operational requirements into practical technical solutions
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API communication
- Understanding of application validation, error handling, and reliability
- Experience implementing logging, monitoring, or troubleshooting tools
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment practices
- Experience working with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Experience writing tests and maintaining software quality
- Strong attention to detail when working with structured data and interconnected systems
- Ability to investigate technical issues independently
- Experience collaborating with engineers, product managers, and operational stakeholders
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple technical priorities
- Ability to document integration requirements and implementation decisions
- Strong problem-solving skills and ownership of assigned projects
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, remote engineering environment
- Nice to Have: Previous experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Integration Engineer, or Healthcare Software Engineer
- Nice to Have: Experience integrating pharmacy management systems or prescription processing platforms
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with electronic prescribing and prescription transmission workflows
- Nice to Have: Understanding of pharmacy fulfillment, dispensing, and order management processes
- Nice to Have: Experience working with pharmacy partners or healthcare technology vendors
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 or FHIR
- Nice to Have: Experience with NCPDP standards or pharmacy-related data exchange formats
- Nice to Have: Understanding of HIPAA and healthcare data privacy considerations
- Nice to Have: Experience developing healthcare or telehealth applications
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with prescription routing, medication information, or pharmacy order status workflows
- Nice to Have: Experience building event-driven integrations or asynchronous processing systems
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with AWS Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or comparable cloud technologies
- Nice to Have: Experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript in production
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with tRPC, Prisma, or Drizzle ORM
- Nice to Have: Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architectures
- Nice to Have: Familiarity with OAuth, API authentication, and webhook security
- Nice to Have: Experience implementing retry logic, idempotency, and failure recovery for integrations
- Nice to Have: Experience developing internal monitoring or operational dashboards
- Nice to Have: Experience turning custom integrations into reusable platform capabilities
- Nice to Have: Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
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