Forward Deployed Engineer

Work side by side with new companies to build what they need on Worker.

About the role

When a company moves onto Worker, it brings years of spreadsheets, habits and data. As a forward deployed engineer, you work side by side with its owner and leadership team to bring all of it into Worker and build what they need.

You’ll work with the AI team, and with sales, onboarding and the product and engineering team in Prague. You own each company’s setup until it runs on Worker, and you turn what you learn into product.

What you’ll do

• Move each company’s spreadsheets and data into Worker.
• Build the automations and AI workflows a company needs.
• Work directly with owners and leadership teams to understand how they run.
• Write the scripts and tools that make each new setup faster.
• Turn one-off fixes into product features with the core team.
• Join sales calls when a company has hard technical questions.
• Write down what you learn so the next setup is easier.

What you bring

• 3+ years writing production code.
• Strong SQL and scripting skills.
• You like working with customers as much as with code.
• Comfort with messy data and open problems.
• Clear, calm communication with people who aren’t technical.

Meet most of these? Please apply. We care more about what you can do than a perfect match.

Nice to have

• Experience in consulting, solutions or implementation work.
• Experience building with large language models.

Our stack: Python, PostgreSQL, AWS and Kubernetes.

Your first 90 days

1. Month 1Learn the product and join setups for new companies.
2. Month 2Lead a company’s setup yourself, from the first data import to its first weekly meeting on Worker.
3. Month 3Turn a pattern you’ve seen across setups into a tool or a product feature.

How you’ll live our values

• See it. Own it.If a company’s data won’t import cleanly, you don’t send it back. You fix it, or you build the tool that does.
• Learn. Improve. Repeat.Every setup teaches you something. You write it down and change the product or the process so the next company moves faster.
• Say the hard thing.When a request won’t help an owner, you say so and show a better way, even if it’s not what they asked for.
• Stay until they win.Your work isn’t done when the data is in. It’s done when the company runs its weekly meeting on Worker.

Read our values and the story behind each one

Pay and benefits

$175K to $275K a year.

• Where you land in the range depends on your skills and experience.
• We share the full benefits package before your first interview.
• We never ask about your current or past pay.

Where you’ll work

Based in our San Francisco office, most days in person.

How we hire

1. A 30-minute call with our team.
2. A skills interview or a short work sample.
3. Meet the founders.
4. References and an offer.

We reply to every applicant within 5 working days. Your application goes straight to our team. No agencies and no automated screening.

About Worker

Worker is a company operating system for small businesses. Owners and their teams can see the plan, who owns each task and which numbers need attention. Goals, to-dos, issues and the weekly leadership meeting stay in one place.

Our teams in Raleigh, San Francisco, New York and Prague build the system that helps owners grow without running everything themselves.

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