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# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Parafin Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $59,800.0 - $68,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Engineering, Backend, Production Code
- **Published:** May 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=409b621d5afca8b4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Stakeholder management?, * 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-quality code

 * Experience building end-to-end backend systems, with flexibility to work across the stack
 * Excellent communication skills to work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
 * Ability and desire to represent Parafin with external partners
 * Strong problem-solving skills and ability to execute and drive progress in ambiguous environments

Bonus Points:

 * Prior founder or entrepreneurial experience. You have had extreme ownership and drive, possess a strong ability for customer-centric problem solving, and are bought into a high-growth mindset
 * Experience working directly with enterprise or strategic customers. You have collaborated with business stakeholders and built trust while managing expectations across internal and external parties
 * Previously built platforms and features for public use. Examples include Public APIs & demo sandbox environments.

## Description

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Parafin are product-focused software engineers who operate at the intersection of partner delivery and core platform development. FDEs lead high-complexity, net-new integrations and partner-driven initiatives end-to-end, collaborating closely with Product, Platform, and Partner Engineering (our GTM-facing partner team). Although FDEs interface with strategic partners, their core output is internal: shipping scalable product and platform improvements that make partner integrations faster, safer, and easier to support over time., * Own technical delivery for complex partner launches (end-to-end). Act as the engineering lead across teams to scope, sequence, and drive new work needed to launch strategic partners and expand on existing partnerships

 * Ship and contribute code to the core product. Scale new & existing features across platforms to drive partner (customer) growth and adoption
 * Design new integration patterns, interfaces, and end-to-end systems
 * Partner closely with Sales, GTM, Product, and engineering teams to align on scope, surface product gaps early, and reduce rework downstream
 * Identify and remove friction in integrations and partner support through new features and improved tooling


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