About the role
Forward deployed engineers embed with a client team for weeks at a time and ship production software in that team's own environment. The work starts with the operational problem, a manual process or a legacy system that everyone has agreed is broken, and ends with code that the client's engineers can run, change and be paged for.
The Delivery team is part of Consulting, and it carries lessons back to the ventures. A pattern that works for one client's approvals or data pipeline often becomes a product idea in Clexerl Go or a reusable component in another division. The team's standard is simple: every scale gets the same rigour, whether the client is a seed-stage founder or a large operator.
What you’ll do
- Scope a client's problem in the first week, and write down what will ship, what will not and how success is measured.
- Build production services and tools in the client's stack, with tests, deployment scripts and runbooks they can own.
- Pair with the client's engineers daily, and leave them able to make the next change without you in the room.
- Make build-or-buy calls with the client, and explain the cost of each option in engineering time and risk.
- Raise problems early in writing, including data quality issues, unclear requirements and integration risks.
- Hand over each deployment with monitoring, alert thresholds and a rollback path that has been tested.
What you’ll bring
- Experience as a software engineer who has shipped production systems end to end, including on-call.
- Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases and stacks, and learning a client's domain quickly.
- Strong communication with non-engineers, including operators, founders and executives who need straight answers.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers and CI/CD, and enough security sense to avoid obvious mistakes.
- A track record of working under deadline pressure without cutting corners on tests or data handling.
Nice to have
- Experience with data pipelines, workflow automation or integration work for operational teams.
- Background in consulting, professional services or customer-facing engineering roles.
- Experience deploying software into regulated or air-gapped environments, with audit trails.
- Familiarity with LLM application development, including retrieval, evaluation and cost control.
Work you might take on
- 01
Replace a client's manual quarterly reconciliation with a tested pipeline, and hand over its runbook to their finance team.
- 02
Build an integration between a client's ticketing system and their scheduling tool, with retries and an audit log.
- 03
Deploy an internal approval service into the client's cloud account, with monitoring and a documented rollback path.
- 04
Prototype an LLM-assisted triage tool for support tickets, and measure its accuracy against a labelled sample.
Compensation
$200K – $330K
The US base salary range for this role. Every offer also includes equity in Clexerl and, when it spins out, in the venture you help build. We tell you the reasoning behind your number.
Benefits
Health, fully covered
Medical, dental and vision for you and your dependants, premiums paid in full.
Two kinds of equity
Equity in Clexerl, plus a stake in the venture you help build when it spins out.
22 weeks parental leave
Fully paid, for every parent, however your family arrives.
Rest that sticks
Flexible time off with a four-week minimum we actually check on, plus a company-wide week in December.
Learning and compute
A yearly budget for courses, conferences and books, and compute credits for side projects.
401(k) with a 4% match
Matched from your first paycheque and vested immediately.
How we hire
Apply 5 minutes
Send links to what you have built and a few lines on why this role. No cover letter needed.
Intro call 30 minutes
A conversation with the hiring manager about the work, the team and what you want next.
Work sample 2–4 hours
A paid take-home or a pairing session on a real-shaped problem. You pick the format.
Studio day One day
Meet the team, go deep on your work and ours. Remote or in person.
Offer Within 5 days
A written offer with the full range, the equity and the reasoning behind both.
Opens an email with a short template. Links beat résumés.