Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed

Foxglove • Foxborough, MA

3d • KPW 123,479,981 - KPW 156,189,368

About The Position

Foxglove is seeking a Korean- and English-fluent engineer to work directly with robotics customers in Korea. The engineer will build and deploy Foxglove solutions, including at customer sites without internet access, and own projects end to end to help robotics teams develop on the Foxglove platform. The role involves identifying customer needs and constraints, collaborating with product and design teams on solutions, implementing those solutions, and helping customers adopt them. Customer insights will inform the product roadmap. Foxglove is looking for strong full-stack or backend engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Fluency in spoken and written Korean and English.
• Experience leading technical meetings with customer engineers and translating requests into scoped work.
• A track record of rapid prototyping and incremental delivery with external stakeholders.
• Backend experience with Node.js, Python, or Rust, and frontend experience with React/TypeScript.
• Experience with Docker and comfort deploying and supporting software on networks without internet access.
• Ability to judge what to build and make it usable without a designer.
• Ability to work independently with a team located 16 to 17 hours behind.
• Willingness to work on-site with customers in Korea as needed.
• Comfort with up to 50% travel, including to Korea.

Nice To Haves

• C++ experience.
• Robotics or industrial automation experience, or experience in a past deployed role.

Responsibilities

• Work with customer teams in Korean and English to understand their goals, constraints, and technical needs.
• Design and build end-to-end solutions in small, tested steps using technologies such as TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL, and/or Rust.
• Define clear scopes, timelines, and success measures, from proof of concept through production.
• Code alongside customer engineers and deploy solutions in cloud, on-premises, and offline environments.
• Install and update software at customer sites without internet access, and write deployment runbooks.
• Train customer teams and create documentation in Korean and English.
• Coordinate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success on shared accounts.
• Share customer insights with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Document effective practices, contribute to internal libraries, and help the FDE team support Korean customers.

Benefits

• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents, for U.S. full-time employees.
• 401(k) matching up to 4%, for U.S. full-time employees.
• Four weeks of vacation, plus holidays and winter break.
• All-expenses-paid company offsites one to two times per year.
• $300 monthly budget toward commuter benefits or building a personal workspace, depending on role and location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level