Forward Deployed Engineer

YouDevise; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

YouDevise is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with a Partner’s operations team to document real workflows and translate them into impactful product decisions. You will learn the regulatory domain deeply, encoding statutes and regulations in software, and collaborate across systems lacking APIs or modern interfaces.

You will build end-to-end production code, integrate with legacy systems, and ensure security and correctness in a multi-tenant payroll/PII environment, using agentic

Qualifications

• Substantial experience building and operating production software with clear ownership.
• Experience with agentic coding tools and understanding where they speed delivery versus supervision.
• Strong software engineering practices: Git workflows, code review, tests, CI/CD, monitoring, safe production releases.
• Proven ability to integrate third-party and legacy systems, including undocumented ones, without sandbox support.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a Partner’s operations team to observe real workflows and translate them into product decisions.
• Learn regulatory domain to a working professional standard and reason why rules exist, not just how to implement them.
• Integrate with non-native systems (vendor portals, SFTP, legacy apps, PDFs, spreadsheets) and build end-to-end production interfaces.
• Build and ship production code end to end with tests, scheduled jobs, and feature flags in a multi-tenant environment.
• Own correctness and operational risk, considering tenant isolation, idempotency, and failure handling.

Skills

Production software ownership

Agentic coding tools

English communication

Software engineering practices

Systems integration

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

PostgreSQL

Job description

This Stealth Startup is an AI deployment company building superabundance in knowledge services, starting with retirement and insurance. They partner with traditional U.S. regulated financial services businesses and rebuild their backends with their agentic harness, enabling them to deliver higher quality services at a fraction of the cost. They pair their harness with a bespoke implementation process driven by their team of Forward Deployed Engineers who embed in their Partners’ businesses and work with them to deliver real outcomes.

Since founding the company in April, they closed >$1M in contracts and a $13M seed round from top-tier funds, with participation from founders and leaders at Datadog, CyberArk, Wix, Base44, Human Interest, Berkshire Partners, Fidelity, Susquehanna, Adobe, A24, Cursor, Scale AI and more.

The Forward Deployed Engineer is the link between the product and the customer, combining strategy and technology to deliver a top-tier product and amaze the customer. You will embed in a Partner’s business, learn how their operation actually runs, and build and ship the software that runs it - working directly with the people whose day-to-day work you are changing.

What you'll do

• Embed with a Partner’s operations team. Sit with the people doing the work today, document the real process rather than the documented one, and translate what you learn into product decisions.
• Learn the regulatory domain to a working professional standard. Our software encodes statute and regulation; approximate correctness is not acceptable, and you will be expected to know why a rule exists, not only how to implement it.
• Integrate with systems that were not designed to be integrated with - vendor portals without APIs, SFTP file transfers, screen-driven legacy applications, PDF source documents, and manually maintained spreadsheets.
• Build and ship production code end to end: interfaces to every external system, tested implementations, scheduled jobs released behind feature flags, and a deliberate live rehearsal before anything runs against a Partner’s real data.
• Own correctness and operational risk in a multi-tenant system that holds payroll and personally identifiable information. Consider tenant isolation, idempotency, and failure handling before merging, not after.
• Use agentic coding tools as a primary means of delivery, while remaining fully accountable for the quality, security, and correctness of everything that ships.
• Communicate directly with Partner stakeholders, up to and including executives - reporting status, presenting tradeoffs, and building confidence in the work.

Key requirements

• Substantial experience building and operating production software, with clear ownership of systems that other people depended on.
• Experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, and a considered view of where they accelerate delivery and where they require close supervision.
• Strong professional software engineering practice: Git-based workflows, code review as both author and reviewer, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and safe production release practices.
• Demonstrated experience integrating third-party and legacy systems, including undocumented ones, without a sandbox or vendor support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English. You can write a clear status update, run a working session with non-technical operators, and hold your own in a meeting with a Partner’s leadership.
• Ability to produce client-quality deliverables - structured documents, process maps, and presentations - and to present them to a business audience.
• Strong analytical and problem structuring skills: you can take an ambiguous business problem, break it down, and drive it to a decision without a fully specified brief.
• Comfort with travel to Partner sites and with working across U.S. and Israel time zones.
• Comfort operating the infrastructure a production service runs on: relational databases such as PostgreSQL, asynchronous and scheduled job processing, handling of PII and secrets, and cloud platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience in a client-facing engineering, consulting, or solutions role (forward deployed engineering, professional services, technical consulting).
• Background in a regulated industry — retirement, insurance, banking, or healthcare.
• Experience building with LLMs in production, including evaluation and guardrails.