> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Member of the Technical Staff - Product Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df3f0d46445696a0 Two Dots posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $175,000–$225,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Product Engineer responsible for rapidly shipping customer-facing software, integrations, and reliable workflows for property management customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Two Dots](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/two-dots) Posted Jan 3, 2025 by Two Dots · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$175,000–$225,000** San Francisco, CA Full-time Product Engineer responsible for rapidly shipping customer-facing software, integrations, and reliable workflows for property management customers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fdf3f0d46445696a0&placement=top) - [View posting at Two Dots](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/two-dots/085636cd-d0af-43f5-ae83-94fac6559580/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $175K–$225K Above the median Midpoint $200K · median $190K This job $175K to $225K. 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 (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** professional software engineering 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 San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated - **Pay**: ## More like this [Zip](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zip) ### [Software Engineer, Forward Deployed (Mid - Senior Level)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/db3d12a17ae46903) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $150,000–$250,000 [Casca](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/casca) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927bef3af6c8393d) San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago $160,000–$265,000 [SalesPatriot](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salespatriot) ### [Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e269756eb6cb8219) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +2 more On-site 4w ago $150,000–$220,000 ## The job description from Two Dots Posted by Two Dots on Jan 3, 2025 ### Company Mission / Why This Matters Two Dots builds verification and risk infrastructure for housing to help solve the housing crisis. Housing is too expensive because America created a single family mortgage machine to cut average people into home price inflation fueled by soft bans on new development. That worked for many decades, but when a small single family home costs several million dollars, it stops being an engine of opportunity and becomes a source of the very resentment modern mortgages were originally created to solve. Housing supply has been restricted so much that people have started fabricating documentation or relying on bypasses and overrides to sign up for a payment they can’t really afford. That conceals the problem instead of solving it. We believe that public and private policy has to change, and that involves breaking the system that conceals our affordability crisis and leaves people without the disposable income required to live satisfying lives, fueling resentment and political instability that turns problems at home into problems for the world. ### About The Roles We’re hiring a Product Engineer to help us build practical, customer-facing software quickly and well. This is a role for future founders and people who have a deep sense of ownership over customer outcomes and creating tangible value quickly. It’s a hybrid product, engineering, and customer-facing role for career software engineers that think like a business operator. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, customer teams, and sometimes directly with customers to ship the software that makes Two Dots more useful, more reliable, and easier to adopt. Examples of work might include converting manual onboarding steps to self-service, integrating with property management systems to generate revenue, or quickly solving urgent customer workflow issues, either from the office or on-site with the customer. ### What You'll Do - Integrate Two Dots with property management systems and other messy real-world APIs. - Streamline customer acquisition with productized, self-serve workflows. - Forward-deployed engineering work and special engagements with high-value customers. - Fix urgent bugs and workflow issues quickly when customers are blocked. - Communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and decision points clearly to your manager and teammates. - Work across product, customer success, sales, and operations to drive outcomes through teamwork. ### What We're Looking For - 2+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Strong TypeScript and React skills. - Comfort building polished, reliable workflows. - Enough backend experience to design data models, APIs, and business logic. - Experience working with external APIs, integrations, or operationally messy systems where reliability depends on the client, not the server. - Strong communication skills and an even temperament under pressure. - Good judgment about when to move fast and when to slow down. - A practical, customer-oriented mindset. - Ability to manage your own work as requirements change. - Influence direction while remaining collaborative. - Strong alignment with Two Dots’ mission and the customer outcomes we are trying to create. ### The Team Henson (CEO) started his career selling FX derivatives to hedge funds at Goldman, then worked at a real estate tech startup for several years leading sales. This enables him to engage with the largest institutional property managers and real estate investors in the country and create value through those relationships. Max (CTO) started out as a software engineer at Blend, a mortgage application company that went public, and went on to work on the search team at Google. That combination of specific consumer fintech experience and knowledge of how sophisticated ML products succeed in production made big enterprise deals work from day 1. We met in middle school and created a media website together where people could watch and post their flash games and animations. We learned to code, source talent, and forge partnerships - and had 500 active users. Although a tragic addiction to World of Warcraft interrupted work on the website, we got back together to start Two Dots. Other team members include: Meta ML alumnus with decades of experience, a 21 year old UMich grad who was a top 2,000 LoL player (he is no longer playing the game, thank god), and a former agave farmer who started a shipping and logistics company while at Stanford. ### What Makes Someone Successful Here The best person for this role is grounded, realistic, and impact-oriented. They want the business to succeed, customers to get value, and the product to become easier to adopt. They do not need an elite CS background or large-scale systems specialization. They do need to be a strong enough engineer that they can ship independently without creating quality-control burdens for the rest of the team. They are fluent with modern coding agents and AI-assisted development, but they do not outsource their judgment. They understand the code they change, recognize when they are taking on technical debt, and make those tradeoffs deliberately. They are also comfortable with scope, structure, and team goals. They understand that startups are not a license to “do whatever I want”, they are an opportunity to work with urgency and ownership toward important outcomes where your contribution matters greatly. ### About The Interviews 1. Intro call focused on Two Dots, the role, and mutual fit. 2. Low-difficulty coding screener. This is intended to test practical fluency and not rarified science skills. 3. Behavioral phone screen. 4. Structured behavioral interviews with engineering and non-engineering teammates. 5. Practical coding challenge: build a simple application from a spec in an AI-assisted coding environment while working with a PM-style collaborator. We evaluate candidates most heavily on judgment, communication, self-management, teamwork, and ability to deliver customer outcomes without creating unnecessary debt. Technical skill matters, but this is a product delivery role first. [View posting at Two Dots](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/two-dots/085636cd-d0af-43f5-ae83-94fac6559580/application) ## About Two Dots AI underwriting agent ("Eve") that automates income verification, identity checks, and fraud detection for multifamily property managers screening rental applicants. 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