Build credit into your product experience. Run it end to end with modular APIs, pre-built components, analytics, and full-service infrastructure. Backed by Pear VC.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cardless, you own getting a new partner from signed contract to live card program, and you do it with your hands in the code on both sides. Every launch starts similarly: a partner has a product in mind, an existing app, their own engineering team, and a set of constraints. You scope it with them, design the integration, write the guides they build against, and help them get to production.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years building production backend systems, including work shipped with a partner or customer in the loop rather than behind a product manager
- You go genuinely deep on systems. You can hold an end-to-end flow in your head and debug someone else's integration against it faster than they can
- Strong with partners: you can run a technical conversation with their engineers and explain the same tradeoff to their business team without changing the substance
- Product sense you'll actually use. You can reason about where a card application, offer, or servicing surface belongs in a partner's journey, and make the case for a different placement when the one they asked for will hurt their customers
- Sound judgment on bespoke versus platform, being able to say no and explain why certain requests doesn’t make sense
More about this role
Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products of their own. Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own. In an industry where branded financial products usually mean shared logos and shared control, Cardless is built to disappear. Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.
In September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million. The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.
We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cardless, you own getting a new partner from signed contract to live card program, and you do it with your hands in the code on both sides. Every launch starts...
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