Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Jobtailor

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco is seeking a pragmatic full-stack engineer who owns customer-facing implementations from onboarding to production. You’ll integrate 50+ external systems, design data flows, and ship production code across Python backend and TS/React frontend.

You’ll work directly with customers in onboarding calls, map SOPs to integrations, and drive ongoing optimization to keep deployments healthy and scalable.

Qualifications

2-10 years of professional experience in a customer-facing engineering role, owning external technical work.
Genuinely full-stack: backend, frontend, and APIs, with production code on a small senior team.
Strong in TypeScript/React and Python, with the ability to ramp quickly.
Experience with APIs, ETL, webhooks, and file feeds in production environments.
Comfortable running technical onboarding and scoping integrations directly with customers.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end deployments, from onboarding to production, including data integration and troubleshooting.
Ship features across Python backend and TypeScript/React frontend on a production platform.
Lead customer onboarding calls and translate feedback into concrete integration work.

Skills

Full-Stack Development

TypeScript/React Proficiency

Python Programming

API Design

Data Modeling

ETL

Webhooks

File Feeds

Debugging

Customer Communication

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Tools

ZoomLogi

IoT Sensors

Telematics

ERP Systems

Job description

Own implementations end to end. From the first technical onboarding call to a customer running ZoomLogi in production, you own it. Data integration, configuration, sensor and carrier setup, workflow design against each customer’s SOPs, troubleshooting, and the ongoing optimization that keeps a deployment healthy.
Integrate against the real world. The platform connects to 50+ external systems: carriers, IoT sensors, forwarders, telematics, weather, flight data, customer ERPs. Most don’t have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while the GPS shows it still in transit. Some go silent without warning. You’ll build integrations that hold up against that messiness and feed patterns back into a framework that lets the next one ship in days.
Ship code into the core platform. This is not a configuration-only role. You’ll contribute features and improvements across our Python backend and TypeScript/React frontend, alongside engineering.
Close the feedback loop. You’ll be in customer calls constantly, because what you hear there is what should get built.
Carry GTM impact. You’ll help identify opportunities inside accounts and drive deals to close.

Requirements

2-10 years of professional experience as a forward deployed engineer, full-stack engineer, solutions/implementation engineer, or in a similar role where you’ve owned customer-facing technical work.
Genuinely full-stack: comfortable across backend, frontend, and APIs, and able to ship production code on a small senior team.
Strong in TypeScript/React and Python, or close enough to ramp quickly.
Understand data modeling and API design, and you’ve done real integration work (APIs, ETL, webhooks, file feeds) and debugged it in production.
Comfortable running technical onboarding and scoping integrations directly with customers.
Based in San Francisco or Chicago and excited about being in the office.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in full-stack development, particularly in TypeScript/React and Python, with a strong focus on customer-facing technical implementations and integrations. Capable of managing end-to-end deployments while ensuring effective communication with clients and optimizing solutions based on feedback.

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