Forward Deployed Engineer

Description

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to personally design, build, and ship the technical solutions that connect Balance to our most strategic customers. This is a hands-on role. contributor role that partners closely with the revenue and product organization to deliver exceptional technical experiences throughout the customer lifecycle.

The role splits between deep, hands-on account work and the broader technical motion: demos, proofs-of-concept, and technical discovery.

It's built for someone who pairs strong technical depth with sharp business judgment.

The FDE reports directly to the VP of Revenue and serves as a key technical voice in shaping how Balance brings technical solutions to market.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary:120,000-150,000, plus performance-based bonus
• Equity package with the opportunity to share in the company's growth.
• Hybrid work model: 3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Unlimited PTO and company holidays.
• Opportunity to be a critical hands-on technical voice in a fast-growing fintech's customer-facing organization.

How to Apply

Send your resume along with a link to a project you've personally built - a GitHub repo, demo video, or short write-up.

We want to see what you've made, not just where you've worked.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic enterprise opportunities through technical discovery, solution design, and executive customer engagements.
• Own technical demos, solution design, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Ensure successful customer implementations and serve as the escalation point for complex technical challenges.
• Represent the voice of the customer by translating customer feedback into product and engineering priorities.
• Work directly with strategic accounts to solve their problems, personally designing, building, and shipping integrations and AI-agent workflows that connect Balance's products into their systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Solution Architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Exhibit strong business judgment about deal economics and ROI, and the instinct to know when to build versus when to push back on scope.
• Sharp ability to get to the core of a customer's problem and its context, and communicate it clearly, internally to Balance's teams and externally to customer stakeholders.
• Hands-on ability to build and configure AI-agent-based workflows and integrations using modern coding and agent-orchestration tools, able to personally design solutions connecting Balance's products into client systems, not just direct others to build them.
• Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles and engaging with executive stakeholders.