[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @realfast.ai

Role Description

We're looking for a hacker-coded engineer - someone who'd rather build the tool than wait for it. You've shipped in ambiguous environments, picked up unfamiliar stacks, and built solutions that matter to the business. Here, you take that all the way.

The problems change constantly:

• Salesforce integrations one week
• Data pipelines the next
• An AI agent the week after

You're embedded in client delivery, working directly with the founders, shipping production software that hits SLAs and moves metrics the client cares about. What stays constant: you ship fast and to a high bar.

What you'll do:

• Build stuff that solves real problems - directly with customers, using whatever tech gets the job done best
• Get your hands dirty across front-end, back-end, data pipelines, and AI models
• Operate in cockpit mode: you steer, your agents execute
• Make smart trade-offs between elegant code and shipping fast
• Have room to chase rabbit holes that might unlock a better way to build
• Help us hire by spotting people who can operate at this speed

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience
• Strong coding skills across multiple languages
• Appreciation for how businesses make money with software
• Comfort working without a map in ambiguous environments
• Comfortable in a terminal
• Experience building small apps, scripts, or tools
• Experience using AI coding assistants
• Familiarity with Git
• Clear, precise prose for reasoning and communication

Requirements

• Software engineer at a startup or product company
• Developer at a consultancy or agency
• QA engineer who codes and automates
• Designer who builds prototypes in code
• Business analyst or PM with hands-on development experience
• DevOps or platform engineer who has built applications
• Other equivalent IC roles with hands-on building experience

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI tools
• Collaborative and fast-paced work environment
• Ability to influence product direction and quality

This role is for you if

• AI tools are part of how you work
• You're a polyglot engineer who loves creating solutions
• You want to use AI to drive business outcomes
• You're obsessed with quality and craft
• You want to turn state-of-the-art research into reliable production systems
• You care why the business needs a thing
• You want to operate across engineering, delivery, and client context

This role is NOT for you if

• You find terminals anxiety-inducing
• You don't code and don't intend to start
• You're not willing to learn Git
• You struggle to express your reasoning clearly in writing
• You haven't woven AI tools into how you work
• You need detailed specs and extensive guidance
• You're looking for a purely coding-focused role
• You'd rather specialize narrowly than be dangerous across the stack