Forward Deployed Engineer
Method Financial20 days ago
Washington, DC, USA +2 moreMid Level
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own customer integrations from onboarding through go-live and write the code needed to support each customer’s use case.
- Gather requirements from customers and turn them into scoped, shippable engineering work.
- Extend Method’s platform with new endpoint parameters, configurability, and features built on existing services.
- Own the SDKs, OpenAPI specification, customer configuration tool, integration guides, and documentation.
- Serve as the engineering owner for strategic accounts and partner with a Forward Deployed PM on custom builds and expansion.
- Join daily customer calls, including calls with customer engineering leaders.
- Participate in the engineering on-call rotation and engineering ceremonies.
- Turn recurring customer requests into platform feedback and improvement proposals.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience.
- Strong software engineering background with a record of shipping production code.
- Deep fluency with API design patterns and production integrations.
- Interest in working directly with customers and understanding their technical goals.
- Ability to work quickly, adapt to changing requirements, and extend a large existing codebase.
- Ownership-oriented approach and comfort defining processes in an early-stage environment.
- Preferred: experience as a forward deployed, solutions, or integration engineer at an API-first company.
- Preferred: experience at a talent-dense company serving large enterprise customers.
- Preferred: customer-facing founder or early-employee experience.
- Preferred: exposure to fintech, payments, or financial data APIs.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with basic medical plans fully covered.
- Flexible paid time off.
- $30 per day lunch allowance when working from the office.
- 12 weeks of parental leave.
- Employer-sponsored commuter benefits.
- Phone/internet stipend and work-from-home stipend.
- Student loan repayment contribution.
- Lifestyle spending and learning and development stipends.
- Hybrid office stocked with snacks and quarterly team off-sites.
- Regular in-person presence at a hub in NYC, Austin, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C., generally 2–3 days per week; full-time remote work is not available.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Method Financial
Method Financial provides an API to connect consumer credit and liability accounts and execute payments, enabling lenders and fintech apps to verify, manage, and repay debts in real time. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, it is privately held. Customers include SoFi, Bilt, Cleo, Sezzle, Figure, and Aven, with coverage across 15,000+ financial institutions and support for credential-less account linking and embedded bill pay.