Forward Deployed Engineer

Location - San Francisco, CA (5 Days Onsite) OR New York, NY (Hybrid – 4 Days per Week, Fridays Remote)

Compensation - $175,000 – $200,000 Base + Competitive Equity + Performance Bonus

Visa - No Visa Sponsorship Available - (No Relocation Support Available)

Company Stage - Series A Startup (~$21.7M Raised)

Industry - FinTech, Enterprise AI, Accounts Receivable Automation, Enterprise SaaS, Financial Infrastructure

About the Company

The company is building one of the world's leading AI-powered Accounts Receivable automation platforms, helping enterprise finance teams eliminate manual workflows through intelligent automation and modern AI infrastructure.

Its platform combines AI-powered document processing, financial workflow automation, enterprise integrations, banking data pipelines, and large language models to streamline invoice processing, payment reconciliation, customer communications, and ERP workflows. By replacing legacy financial operations with intelligent software, the platform enables finance organizations to automate complex AR processes while improving accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

Backed by Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund), and leading venture investors, the company recently closed a $17M Series A and has raised over $21M to accelerate product development and customer growth. As one of the earliest engineering hires, you'll directly influence customer deployments, product direction, and engineering strategy while working closely with founders and enterprise customers.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll own customer implementations from technical discovery through production deployment while partnering closely with engineering, product, and enterprise customers to solve complex financial infrastructure problems.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage AI infrastructure startup where you'll directly influence customer success, product evolution, and enterprise AI adoption while helping build the future of financial operations.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end technical deployments for enterprise customers from integration planning through production go-live
• Build and configure enterprise data integrations connecting banking systems, ERP platforms, APIs, and financial infrastructure
• Translate complex customer business requirements into scalable engineering solutions
• Partner directly with enterprise finance teams to understand operational workflows and deployment requirements
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to prioritize customer-driven product improvements
• Troubleshoot production integration issues involving banking data, payment systems, authentication, and enterprise workflows
• Design scalable deployment processes supporting rapid enterprise customer onboarding
• Build internal automation and tooling improving deployment efficiency and customer implementations
• Leverage AI-powered engineering workflows and LLM technologies throughout deployment and product development
• Work alongside Deployment Strategists to ensure successful customer implementations and long-term adoption
• Influence product roadmap by identifying recurring customer pain points and scalable platform improvements
• Own customer deployment initiatives from technical scoping through successful production launch

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 3–5 years of software engineering or Forward Deployed Engineering experience
• Experience shipping production software used by external customers
• Experience owning customer-facing technical deployments from implementation through production
• Experience working in high-growth startups, Big Tech, or technically rigorous engineering organizations
• Experience translating customer business problems into technical engineering solutions
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and cross-functional stakeholders
• Startup experience or early-stage company exposure strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing engineering initiatives

Technical Requirements

• Strong TypeScript and/or Python engineering skills
• Experience building production software and customer-facing technical solutions
• Experience with enterprise API integrations and distributed systems
• Experience integrating ERP systems, banking platforms, financial data pipelines, or enterprise infrastructure
• Familiarity with AI-powered products, LLM workflows, or intelligent automation platforms
• Experience working with modern backend technologies including Next.js, Prisma, MySQL, and cloud infrastructure preferred
• Strong debugging, systems integration, and software engineering fundamentals
• Experience working with authentication, networking, security, and enterprise data exchange
• Strong understanding of technical deployment lifecycle and production support
• Ability to rapidly learn complex enterprise customer environments

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related technical field required
• Strong technical background from a respected engineering program preferred

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills
• High ownership mentality
• Excellent customer-facing communication
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Self-directed and proactive
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Startup mentality
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Customer-first engineering mindset

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $175,000 – $200,000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Performance Bonus
• Direct collaboration with founders and engineering leadership
• Significant ownership over enterprise customer deployments
• Opportunity to shape product roadmap through customer feedback
• High-impact engineering role
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI-powered financial automation
• Rapid career growth opportunities
• Collaborative, high-performing startup culture
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Daily Office Lunches & Snacks

Why Join

This is an opportunity to build AI-powered enterprise software transforming financial operations for modern businesses.

You'll work directly with enterprise customers, design complex technical integrations, and influence both product direction and engineering strategy while helping automate one of the largest untapped opportunities in enterprise finance.

As one of the earliest Forward Deployed Engineers, you'll have broad ownership across customer deployments, engineering execution, and product innovation while helping define the future of AI-native financial infrastructure.