Join Glimpse as a Founding Forward Deployment Engineer to shape software solutions for CPG brands in a fast-growing startup.
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Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own customer problems end to end
- Build data integrations
- Design patterns that scale
- Make correctness a first-class requirement
- Set the bar for good code
Must have
- 5+ years of software engineering
- Hands-on experience with data pipelines and integrations
- Comfort with messy, legacy, and undocumented data sources
- A track record of owning ambiguous projects
- Strong instincts for testing, validation, and auditability
Nice to have
- Experience with retail, CPG, supply chain, or finance-ops data
- Prior early-stage or founding-team experience
- Familiarity with reconciliation or audit requirements for financial data
Role intensity
70% hands-on coding
AI in the day-to-day
Daily use of AI-assisted development tools.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Founding Forward Deployment Engineer at Glimpse is responsible for transforming ambiguous customer requests into functional software solutions, managing the integration of complex data from various systems. This role requires expertise in building data pipelines and a strong understanding of financial workflows, particularly in environments with messy or undocumented data. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in customer-facing engineering roles and a proven ability to navigate ambiguous projects from inception to deployment. Glimpse offers a fast-paced environment with significant ownership and impact on the back-office operations of CPG brands.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Founding Forward Deployment Engineer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in New York City, New York, United States.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Founding Forward Deployment Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Glimpse is hiring for this position in New York City, New York, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: MongoDB, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Glimpse targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Founding Forward Deployment Engineer role at Glimpse.
From the original posting
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Founding Forward Deployment Engineer. You'll sit at the point where customer reality meets our product: messy ERPs, undocumented data, and asks that sound simple until you dig in. You'll turn that ambiguity into working, well-built software. You'll also define what the FDE function looks like as it grows. The integration patterns, validation standards, and ways of working you set up will outlast any single customer.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Own customer problems end to end. Take a vague customer ask and drive it to a shipped solution without waiting for a spec. Pick up the work nobody assigned when it matters.
Find the real problem. Look past what customers literally request to what will actually make them successful. Turn scattered and conflicting feedback into a clear product direction the team can build against.
Build data integrations that hold up. Move and reconcile SKU, inventory, transaction, and invoice data across legacy systems and modern data stacks. Handle undocumented sources, partial data, backfills, and idempotent reprocessing as a matter of course.
Design patterns that scale. Build integration approaches that work across customers and ERPs, not one-off scripts. Plan for failure modes, scale, and future change before they force your hand.
Make correctness a first-class requirement. Build validation, exception handling, and reconciliation into every workflow, especially where AI touches financial data. Know when an AI step shouldn't be used. Help define how Glimpse proves AI-driven outputs to customers and auditors.
Set the bar for good code. Write clean, correct software. Use AI dev tools as a core part of how you work. Reason openly about tradeoffs.
Make others better. Unblock teammates, mentor, and build alignment across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
What We’re Looking For:
5+ years of software engineering, with real time spent in customer-facing, solutions, or forward-deployed work
Hands-on experience with data pipelines and integrations against financial or operational systems (ERPs, accounting, inventory, order management)
Comfort with messy, legacy, and undocumented data sources
A track record of owning ambiguous projects from first conversation to production
Strong instincts for testing, validation, and auditability, plus a healthy skepticism about where AI belongs in a financial workflow
Daily use of AI-assisted development tools
Clear communication in conversation, writing, code, and design docs. You can explain your own code to a peer and a strategy to a skeptical customer.
Low ego and high standards. You give and take feedback well, handle disagreement constructively, and share credit freely.
Experience building with LLMs.
Technologies:
Python, Node.js, Next.js
MongoDB, PostgreSQL
NICE TO HAVE
Experience with retail, CPG, supply chain, or finance-ops data
Prior early-stage or founding-team experience
Familiarity with reconciliation or audit requirements for financial data
Competitive salary with meaningful equity
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