Forward Deployed Engineer

Location
New York
Workplace
Hybrid
Compensation
$120k – $150k

About this role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to personally design, build, and ship the technical solutions that connect Balance to our most strategic customers. This is a hands-on role. contributor role that partners closely with the revenue and product organization to deliver exceptional technical experiences throughout the customer lifecycle.

The role splits between deep, hands-on account work and the broader technical motion: demos, proofs-of-concept, and technical discovery.

It’s built for someone who pairs strong technical depth with sharp business judgment.

The FDE reports directly to the VP of Revenue and serves as a key technical voice in shaping how Balance brings technical solutions to market.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary:120,000–150,000, plus performance-based bonus 
  • Equity package with the opportunity to share in the company’s growth.
  • Hybrid work model: 3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Unlimited PTO and company holidays.
  • Opportunity to be a critical hands-on technical voice in a fast-growing fintech’s customer-facing organization.

How to Apply

Send your resume along with a link to a project you’ve personally built — a GitHub repo, demo video, or short write-up.

We want to see what you’ve made, not just where you’ve worked.


Responsibilities

  • Support strategic enterprise opportunities through technical discovery, solution design, and executive customer engagements.
  • Own technical demos, solution design, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
  • Ensure successful customer implementations and serve as the escalation point for complex technical challenges.
  • Represent the voice of the customer by translating customer feedback into product and engineering priorities.
  • Work directly with strategic accounts to solve their problems, personally designing, building, and shipping integrations and AI-agent workflows that connect Balance’s products into their systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Solution Architecture.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Exhibit strong business judgment about deal economics and ROI, and the instinct to know when to build versus when to push back on scope.
  • Sharp ability to get to the core of a customer’s problem and its context, and communicate it clearly, internally to Balance’s teams and externally to customer stakeholders.
  • Hands-on ability to build and configure AI-agent-based workflows and integrations using modern coding and agent-orchestration tools, able to personally design solutions connecting Balance’s products into client systems, not just direct others to build them.
  • Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles and engaging with executive stakeholders.

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Top Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus
  • Equity package
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Company holidays