About Careertakes

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About the Role

Confidential Client is seeking an early-stage, full-stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed) to join a small engineering team in San Francisco. This role blends product engineering with periodic forward-deployed work embedded at customer sites: most time is spent building and shipping product features; about one or two weeks per month you will be deployed with customers to integrate, debug, and learn from real-world usage.

• Employment type: FULL_TIME
• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
• Compensation: $130,000–$170,000 per year (range provided)

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What You’ll Do

• Build prototypes through to production features across the full stack — shipping impactful product work frequently.
• Drive product segments end-to-end: design, implement, test, and operate.
• Collaborate closely with the founding team to convert customer needs into technical requirements and prioritization.
• Own technical initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes that shape the roadmap.

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Forward-Deployed Responsibilities (≈1–2 weeks/month)

• Embed with enterprise customers to deploy and integrate the product in diverse environments (SaaS, on-prem, Kubernetes, custom CI, monorepos).
• Work directly with platform, infra, and developer experience teams to diagnose and resolve integration issues.
• Build integrations, adapters, and scripts to unblock rollouts; generalize successful field fixes back into the product.
• Capture evidence-based feedback from the field and translate it into roadmap priorities.

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Who You Are / Qualifications

• You’ve shipped full-stack products (professional experience, open-source, or strong personal projects).
• Comfortable working in low-structure environments and iterating in ambiguity.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about complex build/CI/monorepo problems.
• Excellent communication: you can explain technical failure modes to engineers and articulate business impact to leadership.
• Energized by customer-facing work and willing to travel occasionally to customer sites.
• Experience building internal engineering tools or working inside a large monorepo is a plus.

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Why Join

• High-impact role from day one, working closely with the founding team.
• Direct customer engagement — you’ll be in the room with customers, not reading second-hand notes.
• Opportunity to build the product and the team, and to shape long-term technical direction.

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Benefits & Perks

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Transparent company communication — regular investor & company updates shared across the team
• Occasional travel to customer sites (expenses reimbursed)

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Compensation & Location Notes

• Base salary range: $130,000–$170,000 per year (USD). Pay is dependent on experience, skills, and location.
• This role is based in San Francisco, CA with periodic travel to customer sites.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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