Business Engineer

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking impact-focused engineers for Business Engineering, working directly with clients to design scalable solutions across platforms and industries. You will learn multiple tech stacks, write production-grade code, and collaborate with product teams to translate business challenges into technical outcomes.

The role emphasizes entrepreneurial initiative, cross-functional teamwork, and a passion for driving measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical field.
• 3+ years of experience building and shipping production-quality code.
• Experience with open-source languages such as PHP, Python, Java, or JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience with software design and architecture and maintainable code with proper tests.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Meta's clients, understanding challenges and helping them integrate with Meta's platforms.
• From market insights, build new products and improve existing ones with cross-functional teams.
• Understand and apply deep knowledge of products, technologies, and business to solve problems at scale.
• Design and build end-to-end systems and launch strategies.
• Guide workflow changes and gain consensus from stakeholders.
• Respond to and maintain effective communication with clients.
• Develop long-term strategic plans with clients during integrations.
• Build and manage relationships with technical counterparts; mentor peers.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Influence decision-making through data-centric business topics.
• Serve as a subject matter expert within Business Engineering.
• Participate in interviewing and onboarding of new team members.
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time.

Skills

Programming languages

Experience 3+ years

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field

Job description

Business Engineering is looking for impact-focused, entrepreneurial engineers ready to bring their ideas and make a difference. We are technology experts that apply our software engineering skills to bring a unique blend of business and technology expertise to ensure our clients succeed. Business Engineers work directly with our clients — starting from their challenges and using deep platform expertise to design solutions and help clients integrate with Meta. Our team is at the intersection of business and innovation where you will execute on solving real-world business challenges through Meta's platforms and community in many of today's most exciting industries and products. These include Video, Commerce, Monetization, Metaverse, Gaming, Creators, AI, Messaging and more.You will write scalable production-grade code across Meta's platforms in collaboration with other product engineering teams. You will get to learn and build on different tech stacks and languages. You will use your entrepreneurial passion and the freedom that the role provides to create your own opportunities and choose how you make an impact.Our work pushes the boundaries of technology to deliver solutions quickly and at scale. Our work transcends technology and ensures the solutions we build translate into meaningful business outcomes. Our code is designed to engineer and accelerate business growth. Our approach focuses on driving sustainable, rapid growth for our clients. Our approach aims to maximize positive impact for our clients as well as the billions of people that use their products and services.

Business Engineer Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Meta's clients — working directly with them to understand their challenges, helping them integrate with Meta's platforms, and feeding field insights back to Product teams to shape platform capabilities
• From market insights, build new products and improve existing ones in collaboration with Meta product engineering teams and cross functional partners to meet business needs
• Understand and apply deep knowledge of products, technologies, and business to build solutions to solve for problems at scale
• Design and build end-to-end systems and launch strategies
• Guide workflow changes, and gain consensus from stakeholders while driving toward solutions
• Respond and maintain effective communication with clients and internal stakeholders
• Work with clients to develop a long-term strategic plan, grounded on business objectives, and manage clients during integrations with Meta's platform products and ensure value creation
• Build and manage strong working relationships with technical counterparts. Mentor and share knowledge with peers, creating a positive atmosphere amongst the team
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback while quickly actioning feedback from code reviews conducted of your code
• Influence decision-making through presentation of data-centric business topics
• Serve as a subject matter expert within Business Engineering and provide consultation on domain-level projects
• Participate in interviewing and onboarding of new team members
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• 3+ years of experience building and shipping production quality code
• Experience with open-source languages such as PHP, Python, Java, or JavaScript frameworks
• Experience with writing and shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code, with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, in partnership with all appropriate reviewers, in manageable pieces with relevant documentation and test plans
• Experience with software design and architecture
• Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience contributing to developer and platform documentation
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience working in highly collaborative environments
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience contributing to open source projects, shared code repositories, and/or personal projects
• Client-facing experience and/or experience communicating to an audience
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$118,000/year to $176,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.