Role Description
What you'll do...* Take full-stack ownership of core product domains, driving development from database architecture in PostgreSQL to polished React front-ends. * Partner with external stakeholders and internal growth teams to architect and ship custom technical solutions that enable high-scale platform adoption. * Translate complex partner requirements into production-ready features, ensuring the platform integrates seamlessly with diverse enterprise ecosystems. * Diagnose and resolve deep-stack technical challenges, implementing architectural improvements to ensure long-term system resilience and performance. * Act as a key technical advisor during project discovery, bridging the gap between sophisticated business needs and scalable engineering execution. * Leverage utility-first CSS and modern UI patterns to build intuitive, high-performance interfaces that simplify complex backend workflows.
What we're looking for...
- Experience building and scaling production web applications within high-growth startup or scale-up environments.
- Proficiency across the full stack, with professional expertise in React and backend frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Python, or Node.js.
- A proven track record of managing technical relationships, with at least 2 years in a role that required direct collaboration with partners or customers.
- The ability to move fluently between high-level system design and hands-on coding, with a focus on shipping clean, maintainable, and impactful software.
- Strong data fluency and experience optimizing relational databases to support rapid growth and high-concurrency environments.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and a desire to work in an elite, high-trust engineering culture where autonomy is the norm.
About Forward Deployed Engineering
Forward Deployed Engineers are embedded directly with customers to build custom solutions, integrate products into existing infrastructure, and bridge the gap between product engineering and customer success. The role combines deep technical skills with the ability to operate in client environments and translate business requirements into working software.
Originally pioneered by Palantir, the FDE model has spread across AI, enterprise SaaS, and cloud infrastructure companies. FDEs write production code, architect integrations, train customer teams, and feed product insights back to the core engineering organization. At companies like OpenAI, Salesforce, and Databricks, FDE teams are treated as elite engineering units that can ship custom solutions in days rather than quarters.
Typical FDE stack: Python, TypeScript, SQL, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and increasingly LLM APIs and AI orchestration frameworks. Strong communication and the ability to context-switch between technical and business conversations are as important as coding ability.
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