Forward Deployed Engineer (New York)

What You'll Do

• Deploy into customer contexts. Iterate daily with your customer's engineering and operations teams, mostly over Zoom and Slack, with some travel to spend real time on site.
• Scope the build with the customer. You're not handed a spec. You work out what to build and why with the customer directly, paired with a deployment strategist who owns the commercial side.
• Build across the full stack. TypeScript and React, NestJS with Postgres and Prisma, and AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda). New account infrastructure, blockchain integrations, API endpoints, compliance workflows, whatever the launch requires.
• Generalize the bespoke. Identify patterns across implementations and work with product to turn engagement output into first-class platform features.
• Prototype fast, ship carefully. Rapid iteration against live customer workflows, accepting some throwaway work and making sure what isn't throwaway gets productized properly, all while debugging production issues in real time, sometimes with the customer watching.
• Design for correctness and auditability. This is money-movement infrastructure. Edge cases have real consequences, and you think about failure modes before they happen.
• Communicate crisply with customer engineers, operators, founders, and finance leaders, and with our own product leads, whose pods your work must generalize into.

Who You Are

• You're a builder first. We're flexible on tenure. We'll hire a scrappy engineer straight out of school or a seasoned customer-facing engineer. We're not flexible on the bar. You ship production-grade, full-stack work, and you have something you've built to prove it.
• You're AI-native. Agentic tools are how you already build, and we'll ask you to show us.
• You're energized by customers, not shielded from them. You're comfortable operating directly with an enterprise engineering team, under ambiguity, where the requirements are yours to Client.
• You're obsessed with correctness and resilience. You love a good state machine. You think carefully about what happens when things go wrong, because with money they can't.
• Strong pluses. Payments and fintech infrastructure experience, blockchain and stablecoin integration work, and a forward-deployed or solutions architect background where you built rather than just configured.