Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Overview

As the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Sphere, you'll embed directly with Sphere's most strategic customers to understand their cross-border business workflows, identify the highest-impact compliance challenges, and design and deliver custom solutions that make Sphere fit seamlessly into their operations.

What You Will Do

Enablement: onboard customers, navigate billing system integrations, pull and interpret liability reports, guide clients through global tax liability. Monetization: bridge between customer needs and engineering roadmap, research new compliance requirements, identify patterns across customers.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal for engineers who thrive on owning problems end-to-end, from discovery to deployment, and who are energized by the challenge of translating intricate, jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements into elegant, production-grade software.

Requirements

• Experience in an FDE or customer-facing engineering role
• Experience executing and shipping bespoke customer features, end-to-end
• Ownership
• Relentlessly curious
• Strong communication skills
• Customer obsession
• Very strong attention to detail

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Learning budget
• Parental leave
• Wellness program
• Remote flexibility
• Stipends
• Bonus/commission