Deployed Engineer

Overview

This role is ideal for ambitious engineers with entrepreneurial goals. Many of us are former or future founders, and this is an opportunity to scale a company from $1M to $10M ARR while partnering with fast-growing tech companies shaping the future of software. We value in-person collaboration and work out of our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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What You’ll Do

• Have direct relationships with customers. Whether they’re a CTO, VP of Eng, or Software Engineer, you’ll be the face of Fern and the first person they turn to when they need help. You’ll quickly build a network within the SaaS startup community, especially among YC founders.
• Move fast. To support our customers, you’ll work across several codebases to release bug fixes and features. For example, one day you may fix a bug related to our TypeScript SDK generator and another day you may add features to the Docs Frontend.
• Drive our product roadmap. When you hear a request from a customer that feels hard to build, they may be questioning an assumption we made 6 months ago or proposing a feature requiring a large engineering effort from us. You can use this customer context to build something people want.™
• Build our team. We’re growing, and you will work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members to bring in talented engineers.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent as a solutions engineer, forward deployed engineer, or founder
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to think on your feet and solve problems during calls with technical customers
• Significant experience with TypeScript and at least one other programming language
• Willingness to be a polyglot and work across multiple programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Python, Rust)
• (Bonus) You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company
• (Bonus) Experience working with the OpenAPI specification, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)

What We Offer

• Kind teammates who work hard
• First-hand experience building an early-stage startup
• Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office
• Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited vacation
• Domestic and international team offsites

Our tech stack

• Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
• Claude + Bedrock (LLM)
• Fern (API)
• Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
• Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)
• Postgres DB + Prisma ORM (Database)
• AWS (Cloud)

About The Interview

• Phone screen with a founder
• Three interviews: one coding, one decomp, one behavioral
• Onsite with our team

Compensation Range: $170K - $230K