Founding Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineering

California

Longhouse
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Founding team of a new high-impact business group

Function: Full Stack Engineering Customer-Facing 0 1 Product Builds


We're helping a leading development tools platform with a triple digit year-over-year revenue growth rate hire founding engineers for a newly created, high-impact team. This group will build products from scratch in collaboration with their largest customers - solving complex problems and unlocking hundreds of millions in revenue


You'll work directly with a senior engineering leader who was among the company's earliest employees and previously led platform engineering.


Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate closely with strategic customers to understand high-value, API-centric problems
  • Design and build full-stack applications, integrations, and tools from the ground up
  • Rapidly prototype, validate, and iterate based on user feedback
  • Own the full technical stack - infrastructure, backend, frontend
  • Influence product direction by sharing insights from the field
  • Help define and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function

Ideal Profile:

  • 2 to 5 years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend engineer
  • Prior experience in customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant or client facing Software engineers
  • Strong generalist skills (Node.js, Python, React/Next.js, or similar)
  • Experience building and deploying cloud-based applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working in fast-paced, 0 1 environments
  • Bonus: Background in developer tools, APIs, or interest in AI/automation

Location: San Francisco, California

This is a rare opportunity to work like a startup founder - solving critical problems with the scale and backing of an established platform. Apply if Interested.

Date Posted: 03 June 2025
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