
Staff Forward Deployed Software Engineer
TriEdge Investments
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead deep technical discovery with operators and clients, diagnosing workflows, systemic pain points, and high-leverage automation opportunities across engagements
- Own architecture and delivery of end-to-end systems spanning web, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure, with an eye toward reuse and long-term scalability
- Define and build robust APIs, agentic workflows, and AI/ML-driven systems, setting standards for how intelligent automation is designed and deployed
- Rapidly prototype, develop, validate, and harden solutions in live client environments, balancing speed with production-grade reliability and adoption
- Set technical direction for performance, scalability, security, and resilience, proactively identifying risks and addressing them before they impact customers
- Lead cross-functional technical alignment with product, data, and operators to ensure solutions map directly to business outcomes and portfolio strategy
- Own production excellence in client deployments, driving root-cause analysis, durable fixes, and systemic improvements rather than one-off patches
- Serve as a senior technical authority and trusted advisor to executives and operators while remaining deeply hands-on in code and system design.
Requirements
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, with demonstrated Staff-level impact in production environments
- Proven experience in leveraging AI development stack to develop enterprise grade applications from end to end, such as Claude code, custom mcp, skills, backend-as-a-service.
- Proven track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces end to end, including direct delivery in client- or operator-facing contexts
- Broad technical depth across the stack (e.g., Python, React/Next.js, SQL/NoSQL, cloud infrastructure), with the judgment to choose appropriate tools and architectures
- Strong API and systems design expertise, including defining interfaces and patterns that scale beyond a single team or deployment
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into production systems, with an understanding of tradeoffs across performance, cost, reliability, and compliance
- Exceptional communicator, capable of influencing engineers, operators, and executives through clear technical reasoning and written design artifacts
- Pragmatic technical leader with a strong bias toward ownership, accountability, and forward-deployed execution
- Effective operating in complex environments, including legacy systems, heterogeneous stacks, and regulated or compliance-driven domains
- Fluent in AI-assisted development, using modern tooling to increase leverage while maintaining high standards for code quality and system integrity.
Benefits
- $0 deductible and 100% employee-covered health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401(k) matching program of 50% up to 6% of annual salary
- Unlimited PTO
- Beautiful custom-built office in NYC with daily lunch
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Hard skills
full-stack software engineeringAI development stackPythonReactNext.jsSQLNoSQLAPI designsystems designAI/ML integration
Soft skills
exceptional communicationtechnical leadershipownershipaccountabilityinfluencingproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityclear technical reasoningforward-deployed execution