Forward Deployed Engineer

You lead delivery on a single client engagement, start to finish. Discovery, scoping, system design, build, and production rollout. You write the code, work directly with the client, and stay accountable for what ships. This role takes three things in one person: the judgment to understand the problem, the ability to talk it through with the client, and the skill to build what solves it. Most people bring two. We need all three. A large part of the job is translation. You sit in operator conversations, hear what the business actually needs, and turn it into scope, deliverables, and acceptance criteria the client agrees to and the team can build against. The client trusts you to hold that line. Success is measured by production adoption and workflow impact, not hours logged or demos given.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery on a single client engagement from discovery, scoping, system design, build, and production rollout; Write the code and work directly with the client, staying accountable for what ships; Full-stack build across Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, plus data and integration work with APIs, third-party platforms, accounting and telemetry sources; Integrate LLMs into the product and ship them; Direct client relationships, translating operator needs into scope, setting expectations, and driving adoption; Turn client business logic into durable software; Sequence work, surface risk early, and make scope, speed, and quality trade-offs that protect the delivery date

Requirements

5+ years building and shipping software, including client-facing delivery; Turn ambiguous client conversations into clear scope, deliverables, and acceptance criteria; Communicate directly with operators and non-technical stakeholders and earn trust; Work well in ambiguity; Close loops and take ownership; Production full-stack: Python on the backend, TypeScript and React on the front; Comfortable building against LLM APIs and wiring them into an application; API and third-party system integration, including pulling and cleaning messy source data; SQL and data modeling; Cloud deployment and CI/CD

Nice to have

Deeper agent design and eval experience; Containers and infrastructure-as-code; Monitoring and observability; Direct experience with accounting, field operations, or telemetry data