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Middesk

Forward Deployed Engineer

Middesk
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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and technical design for complex, customer-facing systems.
  • Communicate trade-offs across speed, reliability, and scalability.
  • Identify systemic risks and drive improvements across deployments.
  • Partner with customers to understand their architecture and workflows.
  • Design and deploy production-grade integrations using Middesk APIs.
  • Build and operate LLM- and agent-based systems in customer workflows.
  • Act as a feedback loop between customers and core product teams.
  • Guide engineers through design and code reviews.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production.
  • Experience acting as a technical lead or domain owner.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems and APIs.
  • Comfort operating across the stack, including backend systems and tooling.
  • Strong debugging instincts and an ownership mindset.
  • Excellent communication skills for articulating trade-offs.

Benefits

  • High ownership, high trust, and real autonomy.
  • Direct influence on product direction and technical standards.
  • Opportunity to solve deep technical problems with real-world impact.

Tech Stack

GoPythonTypeScript