Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

What We7re Building

Denari is building the modern software stack for accounting firms: an AI-powered platform that unifies client collaboration, document management, workflow automation, and financial insights in one place.

Were a small, well-funded team with a built-in proving ground. Our sister company, Lucida Tax + Accounting, uses what we build every day, so we hear how a solution landed within hours of deploying it.

Were hiring Denari7s first Forward Deployed Engineer to turn real partner problems into working solutions.

Youll work directly with accounting firms to understand how they operate, identify their highest-value problems, and rapidly build, configure, and deploy solutions using the Denari platform. That could mean creating an agent skill in Denari Answers, configuring a document schema, designing a workflow, contributing a targeted improvement to the core product, or building a lightweight application alongside it.

This is not a traditional software engineering role, and formal software engineering experience is not required. Were looking for a technically confident, resourceful builder who can use agentic development tools to solve real business problems. You should be able to think like an engineerreaking down ambiguity, understanding systems, testing your work, and owning outcomesnd not necessarily having followed a conventional engineering career path.

The objective isnt simply to deliver what someone requests. Its to understand what they actually need, determine the most pragmatic way to solve it, get the solution into their hands, and demonstrate that it created value.

As our founding FDE, youll also help define the function itself: how we scope engagements, prioritize opportunities, measure outcomes, monitor deployments, turn one-off work into reusable capabilities, and carry what we learn back into the product.

Youll report directly to Denari CEO.

We are genuinely open to change. If you have an idea and youre willing to put in the effort, we will back youwhether thats a new partner solution, a reusable skill, a better deployment process, or a new way for the entire company to serve customers.

AI has also changed what counts as hard.
0 Things that once required a traditional software development team can increasingly be built by resourceful people who understand the problem and know how to direct modern agentic tools.

Youll have significant freedom in how you approach the work. With that freedom comes ownership: identifying what matters, making sound tradeoffs, communicating clearly, and following through after something ships.

Denari Answers: Our agentic development platform for building and deploying skills, workflows, and partner-specific solutions.

Agentic coding tools: Tools such as Claude Code that help you rapidly build applications, integrations, automations, and prototypes—even if you are not a formally trained software engineer.

We care much more about what you can figure out and deliver with these tools than whether you can write every line of code yourself.

This is a hybrid role based in Madison. Youll spend three days a week in the office with the team, and the rest of the week youll work from wherever you do your best thinking.

Because this is a partner-facing role, youll also spend meaningful time in calls with accounting firms and frequently working alongside them directly. You should enjoy building relationships as much as building solutions.

• Work directly with partners to understand their operations, uncover problems, and identify opportunities where Denari can create measurable value.

• Design, build, configure, deploy, and maintain solutions within the Denari platform.

• Develop and customize agent skills and workflows in Denari Answers.

• Configure document schemas, user workflows, and automations across the Denari platform.

• Use agentic coding tools to build integrations, internal automations, prototypes, and lightweight sidecar applications when the platform alone isn t the right answer.

• Make targeted contributions to Denariore product when a small change can…