Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

Earth Finance is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to contribute to our SpatiaFi Deploy engagements and help our customers build success on top of our platform.

You are a full-stack engineer who works directly with our customers. You'll sit with them and our Strategic Advisors to help understand the problem, turn what they need into a technical design, and then build it yourself on top of the SpatiaFi platform.

This isn't a role for someone who only wants to code from a ticket. You'll explain trade-offs to a CTO in the morning, walk an operations manager through a prototype in the afternoon, and ship production code in between. You'll usually be working on 2–3 engagements at once.

As a member of the Technology team, you will work closely with the core platform engineers to help build and deliver new customer capabilities, including:

Work with customers

• Help run discovery sessions with customers to understand their goals, data, constraints and how they'll measure success.
• Communicate clearly with every level: CTOs and technical leads, managers, and non-technical users.
• Explain technical choices and trade-offs in plain language, in writing and in person.
• Be the trusted technical contact on your engagements, and flag risks or scope changes early.
• Support pre-sales with demos, solution outlines and effort estimates.
• Turn requirements into designs
• Translate business requirements into clear technical designs: architecture, data flows, APIs and user experience.
• Decide what to reuse from the SpatiaFi platform and what to build custom.
• Write short, readable design docs that both the customer and our engineers can follow.
• Work with our advisory and science teams, who bring domain expertise and help shape requirements.

Build and ship

• Build full-stack applications on SpatiaFi: Go services (gRPC), React and TypeScript frontends, PostgreSQL, and integrations with customer systems and data.
• Work with geospatial data and build map-based visualizations that make it easy to understand.
• Package and ship your work in Docker containers.
• Deploy to Google Cloud, other cloud providers, or customer-managed and on-premise environments, depending on the engagement.
• Use AI coding agents to move fast, while holding to our engineering standards on testing, review and security.
• Follow our security and compliance practices in every engagement, including handling customer data safely.
• Build new AI agents on top of our agentic platform in Google Cloud.

Juggle multiple engagements

• Switch between engagements cleanly, with good notes, clear priorities and honest status updates.
• Manage your own time and commitments across customers without dropping balls.
• Hand over cleanly: documentation, runbooks and training so customers and our team can run what you built.

Make the platform better

• Spot patterns across engagements and feed them back to the product team.
• Turn one-off custom work into reusable components where it makes sense.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years as a full-stack engineer in React, Go with Python knowledge as well
• Solid understanding of geospatial data (coordinate systems, vector and raster data) and experience building geospatial visualizations.
• Hands-on Docker and PostgreSQL.
• A track record of working directly with customers or business stakeholders, not only internal teams.
• Ability to explain technical ideas simply to people at any level, including senior executives and non-technical users.
• Experience turning loose business requirements into a working design and then building it.
• Comfort working on several projects at once and switching context without losing quality.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools to deliver quality code.
• Good judgement on when to push back on scope and when to just get it done.
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the time.

Nice to have

• Climate, energy or environmental data experience.
• Google Cloud, and other clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Kubernetes and serverless platforms.
• BigQuery.
• gRPC and protocol buffers.
• Previous consulting, solutions engineering or forward-deployed experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Final salary will be commensurate on your experience.
• Medical, Dental & Vision.
• Paid vacation and 12 company holidays.
• A 401(k) plan with match.
• A super fun, passionate, dedicated team committed to creating a sustainable and financially sound future for organizations, people and the planet.

** Please note, Earth Finance will not provide Visa sponsorship for this position.