Forward Deployed Engineer: AI‑Driven Supply Chains (Hybrid NYC)

Didero; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace

Unlimited PTO

Monthly wellness stipend

Tech equipment for your setup

Catered lunches

Job summary

Didero is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team. You will translate complex customer operations into scalable backend systems, build integrations with ERP, data pipelines, and APIs, and deploy solutions for enterprise clients.

Collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success is essential as you design repeatable patterns and ensure deployments scale. Hybrid role based in NYC with occasional on-site client visits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend expertise.
• Strong experience building backend services using Python and/or Django (or comparable backend technologies).
• Experience designing and building integrations with external systems, APIs, enterprise software, or data pipelines.
• Experience working directly with customers or cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, debugging, and systems architecture.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand their procurement, finance, ERP, and operational workflows.
• Question and clarify customer requirements, identifying the underlying business need rather than blindly implementing requests.
• Design and build integrations with ERP, procurement, finance, and operational systems.
• Build backend services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automations, and customer-specific technical solutions.
• Translate ambiguous customer processes into structured, scalable system designs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to identify repeatable patterns that should become part of the core platform.
• Debug complex integration issues across customer systems, third-party APIs, data models, and internal services.
• Support customer discovery, deployment planning, and technical implementation.
• Help define best practices for forward-deployed engineering, customer pipelines, and integration architecture.

Skills

Backend development

Python/Django

API design

Customer collaboration

Distributed systems

Tools

Django

Docker

Celery

Redis

RabbitMQ

Job description

Didero is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team. You will translate complex customer operations into scalable backend systems, build integrations with ERP, data pipelines, and APIs, and deploy solutions for enterprise clients.

Collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success is essential as you design repeatable patterns and ensure deployments scale. Hybrid role based in NYC with occasional on-site client visits.