Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Strong software engineering foundation and evidence that you have shipped real, working software, beyond coursework, tutorials, or prototypes that have never met a paying user.
• Comfortable building production applications with Python, TypeScript, and React.
• Understand full-stack development fundamentals, including APIs, databases, testing, debugging, deployment, authentication, and cloud-based systems.
• Can independently work through technical problems and know when to ask for context, support, or a second opinion.
• Can speak with customers, executives, developers, and nontechnical stakeholders without requiring everyone else to learn your language first.
• Communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and changing expectations before they become surprises.
• Enjoy understanding how a business works and can connect technical decisions to revenue, adoption, efficiency, risk, and customer outcomes.
• Comfortable beginning with an unclear problem, asking direct questions, organizing the moving pieces, and creating a reasonable path forward.
• Use numerous AI development tools thoughtfully.
• Want to build and deliver, not recommend what someone else should build.

Nice To Haves

• Built or deployed production systems involving LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Worked directly with customers through implementation, solutions engineering, technical consulting, product development, or a similar role.
• Experience inside an early-stage or bootstrapped company where you had to operate without layers of process, specialized teams, or unlimited resources.
• Worked with marketing automation, CRMs, HubSpot, real estate technology, workflow automation, or data-heavy SaaS products.
• Can show us a project where you identified the problem, built the solution, launched it, and learned whether it actually worked.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and cross-functional leaders to identify product and AI opportunities tied to revenue, customer success, efficiency, or long-term company value.
• Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand their workflows, uncover the actual problem, and translate ambiguous business needs into a clear technical plan.
• Build full-stack solutions using Python, TypeScript, and React, including product features, internal tools, integrations, data workflows, and AI-supported applications.
• Own projects from discovery and prototyping through testing, production deployment, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Define what success should look like before development begins and measure whether the finished solution creates the intended business or customer outcome.
• Make practical decisions about scope, speed, maintainability, security, and technical quality so projects move forward without creating avoidable messes behind them.
• Turn successful customer-specific or internal solutions into reusable components, documented playbooks, and scalable product capabilities.
• Bring lessons from customers and real-world deployments back to the broader product roadmap.
• Keep stakeholders informed, surface risks early, and create enough structure to prevent important work from getting lost between departments.
• Learn Wise Pelican’s product, technical architecture, business model, customer workflows, and current AI initiatives.
• Partner with the CEO to define the initial purpose, priorities, success measures, and working model for our Forward Deployed Engineering function.
• Review our current pipeline of product and AI ideas to identify the projects with the clearest path to revenue, user success, or meaningful operational leverage.
• Take an existing prototype, stalled initiative, or high-priority business problem through the final stretch and into reliable production use.
• Establish lightweight standards for project discovery, technical scoping, deployment, documentation, feedback, and outcome measurement.
• Own a portfolio of internal and customer-facing initiatives from business problem through measurable result.
• Build reusable tools, integrations, and implementation patterns so each successful project makes the next one faster and more valuable.
• Help determine when a customer need should remain a tailored solution and when it should become part of Wise Pelican’s core product.
• Help shape and eventually scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function, including its goals, processes, responsibilities, and future hiring needs.

Benefits

• Major Medical Insurance
• Dental & Vision Coverage
• Three weeks of Paid Time Off
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Seven company holidays per year
• Professional Development Stipends
• 401(k) at Tenure Milestone