Forward Deployed Engineer
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Oct 21, 2026
At most companies, a customer problem passes from a product manager to a designer to an engineer, and context disappears at every handoff. We don’t work that way. In this role you own the entire loop: understand the problem, define what should exist, decide the fastest credible path to it, build it end to end, put it in front of customers, and change the plan when reality proves you wrong. You’ll work directly with restaurant operators and carry important problems across requirements, UX, frontend, backend, data, deployment, and post-launch outcomes. “Product” means you can go from a messy customer problem to clear requirements and an opinionated ideal solution. “Engineer” means you can reason from the problem into the systems required to solve it, and use coding agents aggressively without outsourcing judgment to them. This is not a frontend engineer with good taste, and it is not a product manager who can code — it is both disciplines practiced as one job.What you'll do- Start with restaurant operators, understand the problem beneath what they ask for, and turn it into clear requirements- Define the ideal experience and decide what the first version must prove- Build the highest-priority products end to end, wherever the company and its customers need you most- Use taste and judgment to simplify complexity for people who don’t think about software all day- Ship quickly without confusing speed with sloppiness — build durable foundations where failure has real consequences, take shortcuts where learning matters more than polish- Watch customers use what you built and update both the product and the plan — a feature being deployed is not the same as a problem being solved