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Forward Deployed Engineer

Growing fintech organization New York, NY Direct Hire Finance & Accounting $200,000 - $300,000

Job Summary

Join a dynamic engineering team as a Forward Deployed Engineer, reporting to senior engineering leadership. You'll embed directly with key clients to build and ship custom solutions on top of the core platform, then collaborate to integrate successful features into the broader product. This role offers end-to-end ownership, bridging customer needs with product evolution at a high-growth fintech firm.

Essential Functions

  • Embed with high-value clients to understand their workflows and deploy custom features directly into their environments
  • Build integrations, workflows, and features using platform APIs to address real customer challenges on tight timelines
  • Work across the full stack with modern tools including TypeScript, React, NestJS, Postgres, Prisma, AWS services, Vercel, and Docker
  • Identify reusable patterns from client implementations and partner with core engineering to productize them
  • Prototype rapidly against live workflows, debug production issues in real time, and iterate based on feedback
  • Design solutions with a focus on correctness and auditability for financial infrastructure
  • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders including client operators, engineers, and leaders

Required Qualifications

  • 4-10 years of full-stack engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing roles
  • Experience owning projects end-to-end from scoping and building to shipping and iterating with customers
  • Production experience with TypeScript, NestJS/Node, Postgres, and AWS
  • Background building complex asynchronous systems
  • Comfortable delivering scrappy, fast solutions in dynamic environments
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fintech or payments infrastructure experience including blockchain, transactional systems, or fiat banking integrations
  • 0→1 product engineering at a VC-backed startup or forward deployed role
  • Recent early-stage startup experience before Series C
  • Startup mindset with familiarity for long hours and full ownership
  • Exposure to both large-scale payment systems and early-stage environments

Technical Skills

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • NestJS/Node
  • Postgres
  • Prisma
  • AWS (SQS, SNS, Lambda)
  • Vercel
  • Docker
  • Full-stack development
  • API integrations

Education & Certifications

BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree required.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive base salary range of $200,000 - $300,000 based on experience, plus comprehensive benefits package for direct hire role.

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