Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

About Middesk:

Middesk is building the data and intelligence infrastructure that helps businesses work together with confidence. We started by creating a comprehensive platform for understanding businesses, bringing together authoritative and proprietary data to help customers verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and manage risk throughout the customer lifecycle.

Today, Middesk is used by more than 700 banks and fintechs, and in 2025 we verified more than 7 million companies. We've also expanded beyond business verification to help companies form, register, manage, and maintain their businesses, supporting more than 50,000 companies in setting up over 100,000 accounts required to hire employees, run payroll, and stay compliant.

Middesk came out of Y Combinator, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi. We're proud to be named on the Forbes Fintech 50 and Best Startup Employers lists.

About the Role:

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. Forward Deployed Engineers close the gap between product intent and real-world usage—acting as a tight feedback loop that shapes both how our product is used and what it becomes.

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.

What You’ll Do:

Own Technical Direction for Deployments

- 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—helping define what "great" looks like for Forward Deployed Engineering at Middesk.

Build & Deploy Real Systems

- 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. Deployment quality matters—we operate in the critical path of customer systems.