Forward Deployed Engineer

Location

San Francisco;
New York

Full time

Hybrid

Engineering

• Base Salary: $148K – $275K
  • Offers Equity

Middesk is committed to equitable and competitive compensation, including equity and benefits.

This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Middesk and will be narrowed during the interview process.

Actual compensation will depend on numerous factors such as: experience, knowledge and skills, qualifications, location, and other job-related factors.

Middesk makes it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we’ve been transforming business identity verification, replacing slow, manual processes with seamless access to complete, up-to-date data. Our platform helps companies across industries confidently verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and reduce risk at every stage of the customer lifecycle.

Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to Forbes Fintech 50 List.

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): a deeply technical builder and technical leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and real customer problems.

You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers and internal product and engineering teams to design, ship, and iterate on mission-critical integrations and AI‑driven systems that run in production. You’ll write real code, own complex deployments end-to-end, and help shape how these systems are built across Middesk.

You will act as a technical leader, helping set direction, influence architecture, and establish best practices for how we deploy and operate systems in the real world.

This role is ideal for a recovering founder, a former core engineer who misses direct customer impact, or someone who thrives on ownership and wants to build real systems where the feedback loop is immediate.

Forward Deployed Engineers at Middesk shape both how our product is used and what our product becomes.

• Lead architecture and technical design for complex, customer‑facing systems and integrations.
• Make and communicate clear trade‑offs across speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Identify systemic risks and drive improvements across deployments, not just one‑off solutions.
• Establish patterns and standards that other engineers can build on.

• Partner deeply with strategic customers to understand their architecture, workflows, and constraints.
• Design, build, and deploy production‑grade integrations using Middesk APIs, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
• Own deployments end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Solve ambiguous, high‑impact problems that don’t yet have established playbooks.

• Build and operate LLM‑ and agent‑based systems in real customer workflows.
• Design and maintain evaluation frameworks (evals) to measure quality, reliability, and correctness of LLM outputs and agent behavior.
• Create test harnesses, metrics, and feedback loops to continuously improve AI‑driven systems.
• Feel comfortable running multiple coding agents or automated workflows in parallel, debugging failures, and reasoning about system behavior.

• Act as a tight feedback loop between customers and core product teams.
• Translate deployment learnings into reusable abstractions, internal tooling, and product improvements.
• Influence roadmap priorities by surfacing recurring patterns, technical gaps, and opportunities for leverage.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to org‑wide technical decisions.

• Lead through influence, not authority—setting a high standard for engineering quality and pragmatism.
• Guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on collaboration.
• Help define what “great” looks like for Forward Deployed Engineering at Middesk.

• 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead…