Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

Embed with districts

• Work directly with district IT, data, curriculum, and operations teams to understand systems, constraints, and workflows.
• Translate loosely defined customer needs into technical designs, implementation plans, and production software.
• Own the technical relationship from discovery through integration, customization, launch, and stabilization.

Build integrations and custom solutions

• Build and operate integrations with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Clever, ClassLink, and other district systems.
• Implement REST API integrations, SFTP pipelines, SSO and rostering flows, data transformations, validation systems, and backfills.
• Extend products with district-specific workflows, internal tools, reports, interfaces, and automations.
• Ship full-stack functionality across backend services, data models, and user interfaces.
• Safely migrate and reconcile sensitive, inconsistent, and incomplete district data.

Own production outcomes

• Debug schema mismatches, authentication problems, API limitations, data-quality failures, and unexpected customer environments.
• Build testing, observability, reconciliation, retry, and recovery mechanisms for integrations.
• Remain accountable through go-live and stabilization.
• Balance immediate customer needs with maintainability, security, and platform health.

Improve the core platform

• Turn repeated customer problems into reusable platform capabilities.
• Build integration frameworks, configuration systems, implementation tooling, and operational playbooks.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap.
• Exercise judgment about when to customize, generalize, or reject fragile approaches.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related rigorous technical field.
• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong programming fundamentals and ability to become productive in unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience building production backend services and data integrations using REST APIs, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows.
• Strong debugging skills across application code, data, infrastructure, and third-party systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to design systems, implement them, and remain accountable for production behavior.
• Excellent communication with engineers and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous customer environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Direct experience working with users and domain experts.
• Strong judgment about turning customer requests into reusable product capabilities.
• Node.js and TypeScript.
• AWS.
• React or other full-stack product development.
• SIS, LMS, rostering, SSO, education-data, or public-sector integrations.
• Forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, implementation engineering, or early-stage startup experience.

Compensation and benefits

• Salary range: $150,000–$200,000 annually.
• Work authorization sponsorship or transfer is currently unavailable.