Forward Deployed Engineer

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🕒 May 6

🏢🏡 Austin – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Esper

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51 - 200 employees

Esper is reimagining the future of app and device management for dedicated devices. Rather than follow the standard approach to device management delivering a watered down implementation, Esper focuses on the needs of developers helping them move their app and device management from a portal-based approach into code. We deliver scalable APIs with SDKs, tools, and a specially designed Console streamlining the entire application lifecycle. Across development, test, deployment, management, and support Esper gives developers and admins a new approach for dedicated devices. We specialize in Android, the most popular mobile OS on the planet with over 2 billion active users which is increasingly the OS of choice for dedicated devices.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical arc of customer implementations end-to-end: discovery, architecture, configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and post-launch optimization • Write production code in Esper’s platform to build features, integrations, and customer-specific solutions, and contribute upstream to the core platform when a customer need exposes a general gap • Design and build APIs, data pipelines, and integrations with customer systems, including the data migration and structured content onboarding that gets a deployment off the ground • Translate customer workflows, complex policy processes, and operational constraints into robust technical architectures • Debug across the full stack – application logic, distributed systems, data infrastructure, configuration • Be the engineering voice in the room with customers: run architecture reviews, explain design decisions, push back when a request would create technical debt • Carry several customer projects at once. Own the systems you’ve taken to production through the same engineering channels you’d use for any other production system, and surface architectural and data quality risks before they become escalations • Manage scope, dependencies, and milestones across concurrent implementations without dropping the engineering bar on any of them • Build reusable tools and systems that compound. Every customer implementation should make the next one faster • Work in close collaboration with Product and Platform Engineering to feed structured signal from customers into our roadmap. Contribute to internal documentation and technical standards.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–6+ years of recent professional experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, or technical implementation engineer who shipped production code • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Rust, C#, or similar) and a track record of picking up new languages, stacks, and codebases quickly. Our backend is Java 21 + Micronaut, and you’ll be expected to be productive in it within weeks • Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, API design, and distributed systems • Contributed to and operated a non-trivial backend service in production. Defined its API, owned its on-call, debugged it under load, and lived with the consequences of its design and decisions • Comfortable in any of the major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (we use Gradle, GitHub, and CircleCI) • Hands-on experience with at least a few of these patterns: a workflow engine (Temporal, Sidekiq), event stream processing (Kafka, any form of pub/sub), an RPC layer (gRPC, Protobuf, REST), and a message queuing system (SQS, SNS, or similar) • Real debugging prowess: chasing a problem from a customer report through application logs, into a database query plan or a network trace, and out the other side with a fixDirect experience working with customers in a technical capacity, particularly running discovery sessions and executing an implementation balancing customer needs with platform direction • Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams with ownership of technical delivery and outcomes • Strong written and verbal communication. You can explain the same system to an engineer and to a state legislator in the same afternoon, and adjust the level of abstraction without losing either of them

🏖️ Benefits

• Being a part of an innovative and collaborative team that will both support and challenge you • Significant opportunity for growth and ownership • Ability to shape Esper for the long-term • Paid holidays & unlimited PTO • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Generous parental & sick leave • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Short/Long term disability & life insurance • Flexible spending account (FSA) • Work anniversary equity grants • Quarterly bonuses • Monthly stipend to offset remote work expenses • Office equipment allowance • Paid Time Off to participate in volunteer/community events