Forward-Deployed Engineer

Alex

$130K — $155K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven engineering skills; proficient in reading, writing, and deploying code.
  • Experience navigating systems with limited documentation; ability to assess third-party APIs.
  • Strong troubleshooting capabilities; adept at identifying root causes rather than surface symptoms.
  • Excellent communication skills; capable of interacting directly with customers without intermediaries.
  • Ability to produce clear, concise written documentation to convey technical concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement customer workflows involved in the hiring process.
  • Build and maintain integrations with various applicant tracking systems and related platforms.
  • Oversee the technical onboarding process, ensuring smooth connections and permissions.
  • Manage production deployments, including issue diagnostics and proactive monitoring.
  • Represent customer technical needs to the product engineering team, providing evidence for product improvements.

Benefits

  • Direct engagement with customers, enhancing interpersonal and technical skills.
  • Opportunity for hands-on work with code and integrations, providing a diverse skill set.
  • Participating in a dynamic team environment where you can drive real change.
  • Involvement in technical problem-solving that can significantly impact user experience.
Full Job Description
What you'll do
  • Design and build how a customer uses Alex. Turn a hiring process described in a meeting into workflows that actually run - triggers, filters, interview guides, and the actions we take back in their ATS. When a customer needs something their setup doesn't do yet, you drive it: design, build, test, roll out, verify.
  • Own the integration surface. We integrate with roughly two dozen applicant tracking systems, some directly and some through a unified API partner. You'll build new integrations, maintain existing ones, and go deep on the ones you own - along with the other systems a customer's workflow reaches into, like assessment providers and identity verification.
  • Run the technical side of onboarding. Connection, permissions and scopes, job import, field mapping, workflow build, test interviews, go-live - sequenced so nothing is discovered in front of a candidate.
  • Own the deployments in production. The team owns the support queue - for customers and candidates both - and diagnoses to root cause rather than working around it. You'll also build the monitoring that catches problems before a customer has to call.
  • Be the technical voice of the customer. You are the person who sees, across many accounts, where the product runs out. Turning that into an evidenced case our product engineering team can act on is part of the job.
What we're looking for
  • Real engineering ability. This role reads code, writes code, and ships changes. It is not a technical-adjacent role.
  • Comfort working inside someone else's system with incomplete documentation. Much of this job is finding out what a third-party API actually does, as opposed to what its docs claim.
  • Debugging instinct - the reflex to go get the evidence rather than reason from the symptom.
  • Direct customer contact without a buffer. You'll run your own working sessions and say hard things clearly.
  • Strong writing. A large fraction of the output of this role is a clear written explanation.
Nice to have
  • Forward-deployed, implementation, solutions, or integrations engineering experience - especially anywhere with a long tail of third-party systems.
  • You've built against a messy enterprise API and lived with the result.
  • Fluency with observability tooling - logs, traces, dashboards, alerting you had to live with.

If you've gotten this far and this role resonates with you, we want you to apply. Your first conversation will be with Alex, our AI recruiter.

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