Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate directly with district IT, data, curriculum, and operations teams to gain insight into systems, constraints, and workflows.

• Translate loosely defined customer requirements into technical designs, implementation strategies, and production software.

• Manage the technical relationship from initial discovery through integration, customization, deployment, and stabilization.

• Develop and maintain integrations with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Clever, ClassLink, and other district systems.

• Implement REST API integrations, SFTP pipelines, SSO and rostering processes, data transformations, validation systems, and backfills.

• Enhance Edia’s products by incorporating district-specific workflows, internal tools, reports, interfaces, and automations.

• Deliver full-stack functionality across backend services, data models, and user interfaces.

• Safely migrate and reconcile sensitive, inconsistent, and incomplete district data.

• Troubleshoot schema mismatches, authentication issues, API limitations, data-quality failures, and unexpected customer setups.

• Create mechanisms for testing, observability, reconciliation, retry, and recovery for integrations.

• Remain accountable throughout the go-live process while balancing customer needs with maintainability, security, and platform health.

• Identify recurring customer challenges and transform one-time solutions into reusable platform capabilities.

• Develop integration frameworks, configuration systems, implementation tools, and operational playbooks.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to shape the roadmap based on insights from the field.

• Use sound judgment regarding customization, generalization, and delicate approaches.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field.

• Over 4 years of practical software engineering experience.

• Strong programming fundamentals with the capacity to quickly become productive in an unfamiliar codebase.

• Proven experience in building production backend services and data integrations using REST APIs, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows.

• Excellent debugging skills across application code, data, infrastructure, and third-party systems.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.

• Ability to design a system, implement it, and ensure accountability for its performance in production.

• Exceptional communication skills with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfort in navigating ambiguous customer environments.

• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, AWS, React, full-stack product development, SIS/LMS/rostering/SSO/education-data/public-sector integrations, or roles in technical consulting, implementation engineering, or early-stage startups is particularly valuable.

• Must be eligible to work without requiring employment visa sponsorship or transfer, as Edia is currently unable to provide sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity included as part of the compensation package.