What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed position at Recruiting From Scratch?
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
About the role
Our client has a reached a valuation around $7.6B after their last round.
Being a part of Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), you will design and build solutions to support our largest customers and scale our enterprise motion. FDE is a high-pace, customer-facing, business-focused engineering team, and we pave the way to support the largest and most complex organizations in the world.
On FDE, you will interact directly with customers and deliver solutions end to end — from understanding pain points and shaping product decisions to designing and implementing scalable systems. We are a full stack team and collaborate closely with sales and core product engineering.
Responsibilities
- Deliver solutions end to end that meet the needs of our largest, strategic customers — understanding user pain points, scoping product specs, and designing and building software.
- Collaborate closely with our sales and go-to-market teams to close exciting deals, activate customers, and expand the value provided over time.
- Drive our core product engineering roadmap and make important prioritization and scoping decisions that determine when we build custom solutions vs. accelerate larger existing projects.
- Solve technical challenges to support new levels of scale, and help us develop and execute our strategy to grow our enterprise platform.
Tech stack
Python
Candidate requirements
- 5 years of experience software engineering experience (slightly backend-leaning if anything) at both bigger companies and smaller startups (or if only one, choose startups)
- Experience building software in high-growth environments (startup or larger, but in high-growth periods), not just maintaining systems
- Strong experience in modern frameworks (python, typescript) - want to see that people are very hands-on in the code
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
- Comfortable working with customers strong communication skills - have translated customer needs into solutions
- Experience at fast-paced, high-growth company, and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
The salary range is $233,000 - $275,000 equity
Salary : $233,000 - $275,000
