# Software engineer, Forward Deployed at Aviator

- Company: Aviator (YC S21)
- What the company does: Google-level engineering productivity suite. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://aviator.co
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-20
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aviator/jobs/DTTCGHC-software-engineer-forward-deployed
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aviator-software-engineer-forward-deployed/

## About the role

We are looking for an early fullstack engineer to join our nimble team and build the product alongside the founders in SF. This person will be an extension of us, the founders, and have the same voice at the table. We think of early engineers as having the ethos of being a founder themselves.

## What they're looking for

- Shipped full-stack products before—whether in your day job or projects outside of work
- Experience working in low-structure environments, comfortable working with unknowns
- Passion for building engineering tools, excited about solving problems for engineers
- Strong communication skills. You can explain a subtle failure mode to a staff engineer and its business impact to a VP in the same meeting
- Genuine interest in the customer-facing half of this. You don't have to have done it before, but you should want to—being in the room energizes you rather than draining you
- Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites

Tags: Engineering