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# Forward Deployed Engineer

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Coinflow posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Chicago, IL, at $120,000–$160,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. A customer-facing engineer who owns technical integrations and onboarding from solution design through production go-live, while resolving live payment-flow issues. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Coinflow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/coinflow)

Posted Jan 8, 2026 by Coinflow · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$120,000–$160,000** Chicago, IL On-site Full-time

A customer-facing engineer who owns technical integrations and onboarding from solution design through production go-live, while resolving live payment-flow issues.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$120K–$160K Below the median

Midpoint $140K · median $190K

This job $120K to $160K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Both

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **2+ years** software engineering experience or technical background
- **5+ years** software engineering experience or technical background

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in Chicago, IL. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Chicago, IL

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Coinflow

Posted by Coinflow on Jan 8, 2026

### About Coinflow

Coinflow is the next-generation payment service provider revolutionizing global financial infrastructure with stablecoins, AI-driven fraud prevention, and instant settlement. Coinflow enables businesses to grow faster with instant settlement, fraud & chargeback indemnity, global pay-ins, multi-currency FX, and unified payouts. Founded in 2023, the company serves marketplaces, fintechs, remittance providers, gaming platforms, and ecommerce merchants worldwide.

Since our seed round in 2024, we’ve achieved 23x revenue growth and scaled to multi-billion-dollar annual transaction volume. In response to this growth, Coinflow announced a $25M Series A in October 2025—led by Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Crypto, and Reciprocal Ventures—accelerating our mission to power the world’s fastest-moving businesses with innovative, reliable global payments.

Coinflow is proudly headquartered in Chicago, IL. Learn more at coinflow.cash.

We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)—a hybrid between a software engineer and a customer-facing problem solver.

In this role, you’ll take your engineering expertise out of the office and into the field: working directly with customer engineering teams, designing and implementing integrations, troubleshooting in real time, and ensuring smooth go-lives. You won’t just be writing code for Coinflow’s core product—you’ll be applying your coding skills, systems knowledge, and product intuition to help customers be successful with our platform.

This role is perfect for engineers who love building but want to broaden their scope: spending more time collaborating with customers, shaping solutions, and solving high-impact technical challenges in production environments.

### Solution Design & Deployment

- Work directly with customer engineering teams to design, prototype, and implement integrations
- Build proof-of-concepts and code snippets that accelerate adoption
- Advise on tradeoffs, system design, and best practices for scaling payments infrastructure

### Customer Onboarding & Go-Live

- Own technical onboarding from signed contract through production launch
- Debug live integration issues across APIs, SDKs, and payment flows
- Ensure every deployment is smooth, stable, and optimized for long-term growth

### Optimization & Expansion

- Analyze transaction and integration data to identify bottlenecks and opportunities
- Guide customers in rolling out new features, payment methods, and advanced workflows
- Partner with Sales to expand accounts through technical credibility and solution depth

### Internal Impact

- Translate customer challenges into product insights for Engineering and Product teams
- Build internal tools, documentation, and reusable integration assets
- Help shape the playbook for how Coinflow scales technical deployments globally

### What We’re Looking For

- 2–5 years of software engineering experience (or technical background)
- Coding ability in TypeScript and React, with enough fluency to debug, prototype, and teach others
- Great grasp of REST APIs, integrations, and distributed system data flows
- Comfortable writing database queries for debugging, reporting, and analysis
- Excellent communicator who thrives in customer conversations and technical workshops
- Curious, entrepreneurial, and comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Bonus: Experience in payments, fintech, or transaction processing

### Why This Role is Different

Unlike traditional engineering roles, this isn’t about committing code to our core product every day. Instead, you’ll:

- Be embedded with customers as their go-to technical partner
- Use your engineering skills to solve real-world, high-stakes problems in production
- Influence Coinflow’s roadmap directly with customer-driven insights
- Play a pivotal role in scaling both customer success and company revenue

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $160,000 USD. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, skills, qualifications and business needs.

In addition, the employee who fills this role will be eligible for an equity grant, allowing you to share in the long-term success of the company. You will also have access to a wide array of benefits, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) savings plan, and flexible time off.

Join the team rewriting how money moves worldwide—and become a driving force in the $194 trillion cross-border payments market.

[View posting at Coinflow](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Coinflow/a62a94bb-2620-4ebe-b414-0b032e783be7/application)

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