# Forward Deployed Engineer at Cardless

- Company: Cardless
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.cardless.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $295K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cardless/000459a0-7087-4dfb-911b-1ceab10e986e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cardless-forward-deployed-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering