Forward Deployed HR Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Engage with two to three key customer accounts simultaneously.

• Collaborate with customer HR, operations, legal, and IT teams to outline hiring workflows across various systems, states, and worker types.

• Develop customer compliance workflows as code utilizing forms, policies, entities, automations, and integrations.

• Manage the versioning, review, and deployment of workflows across customer entities.

• Integrate Onboarded with ATS, HRIS, payroll, and screening vendors using REST APIs, webhooks, and MCP surfaces.

• Oversee data models, authentication, and record synchronization.

• Guide workflows from initial discovery to production go-live.

• Monitor workflows, resolve issues, and ensure auditability.

• Transform customer implementations into reusable packages and team tools, including AI agents that generate configurations.

• Draft product specifications for platform gaps, prioritize enhancements, and test new releases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience writing production code in a modern stack such as TypeScript, Python, or a similar language, or a proven history of launching real systems as a founder.

• Quick adaptability to become productive in an unfamiliar codebase.

• Proficiency with APIs, webhooks, authentication, data models, and record synchronization across systems.

• Experience in integrating systems at scale.

• Capability to conduct customer discovery sessions with HR, operations, legal, and IT stakeholders.

• Skill in debugging payroll synchronizations and delivering customer-focused solutions.

• Proficient in utilizing AI tools for writing code, generating configurations, analyzing requirements, and prototyping; an AI-first approach is essential.

• Strong product judgment to convert customer needs into viable implementations or to clearly decline requests.

• High-quality production coding skills.

• Experience in staffing, ATS or HRIS software, payroll, or employment compliance is a significant advantage but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing startup.

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.

• A remote-first culture with optional in-person collaboration opportunities.

• Chance to create workflows for some of the largest employers and staffing firms in the nation.

• Clear advancement path towards leading a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, core platform engineering, or managing a product area.