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Forward Deployed Engineer

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View posting at Numeral

About the job

Forward Deployed Engineer balancing customer-facing technical work with production software development.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success on technical customer engagements and implementations
  • Debug customer issues across APIs, integrations, and production systems
  • Build product features, internal tooling, and workflow automations
  • Own engineering projects from requirements through deployment

What you’ll bring

  • 2–5 years of software engineering experience
  • Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and preferably Node.js skills, or backend experience with willingness to learn
  • Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills

Technologies

JavaScript · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS · Docker · Redis

About Numeral

AI-native sales-tax compliance for e-commerce and SaaS businesses, automating nexus monitoring, registration, filing, and remittance across 11,000+ US jurisdictions and 70+ countries.

Series B · 50–100 people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
Pay not posted
Location
US
Work arrangement
Remote
Remote work restrictions
US
Employment type
Full-time
Experience requirements
  • 2+ years: software engineering experience (2–5 years) (required)
  • 5+ years: software engineering experience upper bound (2–5 years) (required)

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Production engineering
Responsibility level
Senior
Individual contributor or manager
Individual contributor
Coding work
Production code
Project stages
Pre-sales / evaluation, Implementation / production, Ongoing operations
Who you build for
External customers
Balance of the work
Most of this job is building and shipping inside the customer’s environment. Pre-sales and support are a smaller part.

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

Numeral did not post a pay range. Senior FDE postings that do state one sit at $160,000–$222,000 across 1,320 postings. Across all 1,732 US postings with a range, the median is $198,000.