# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Edia](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/edia)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, React, REST APIs, Sftp, SSO, Data Pipelines, Asynchronous Workflows, Powerschool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Clever, Classlink, Data Integration
**Posted:** 2026-08-24

> Build and operate integrations, custom workflows, and full-stack extensions for large school districts, owning deployments from discovery through production stabilization. The role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience, strong debugging and systems skills, and a bachelor’s degree in a rigorous technical field.

## Job Description

## 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.

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