Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)

String; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Beautiful office in Midtown

Meals at office

Annual international offsite

Flexible PTO

Job summary

String is building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web. We’re hiring our founding FDE in NYC to own customer requests end to end and to shape the product roadmap with the engineering team.

You will work directly with the largest hedge funds and top startups, solving scraping challenges, building scalable pipelines, and delivering high value data products. Competitive base salary with equity await.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering experience.
• At least 1 year working directly with customers.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to thrive in unstructured startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with our largest customers to solve their scraping problems.
• Own customer requests end to end to ensure they’re beyond happy.
• This energy: 'What do you want? Cool, we'll build it.' Come back the next day and say, ‘Did this fix your problem? What else do you want?’
• Help define the product roadmap for our broader engineering team - you’re at the frontlines and have the most context into what customers are requesting
• Manage our scraping engineers who will report directly to you - they help build & maintain scraper pipelines for our customers.

Skills

Engineering experience

Customer interaction

Problem solving

High intellect

Job description

String is building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web. We’re hiring our founding FDE in NYC to own customer requests end to end and to shape the product roadmap with the engineering team.

You will work directly with the largest hedge funds and top startups, solving scraping challenges, building scalable pipelines, and delivering high value data products. Competitive base salary with equity await.