Forward Deployed Engineer
EsperAustin, Texas, United States
Posted May 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Esper is a fast-growing GovTech company that empowers dynamic and responsive policymaking in government by building a platform that connects existing data, stakeholders, and public policy goals into a single dynamic system.
Job Description
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Esper, you will embed directly with government teams to design, build, and ship solutions on Esper's platform, understanding and translating real-world policy workflows and operational requirements into productive systems that get used.
Requirements
- 3–6+ years of recent professional experience as a software engineer, solutions engineer, or technical implementation engineer who shipped production code
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Rust, C#, or similar) and a track record of picking up new languages, stacks, and codebases quickly
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, API design, and distributed systems
- Contributed to and operated a non-trivial backend service in production
- Comfortable in any of the major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Hands-on experience with at least a few of these patterns: a workflow engine, event stream processing, an RPC layer, and a message queuing system
Benefits
- Paid holidays & unlimited PTO
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous parental & sick leave
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Short/Long term disability & life insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Work anniversary equity grants
- Quarterly bonuses
- Monthly stipend to offset remote work expenses
- Office equipment allowance
- Paid Time Off to participate in volunteer/community events
