Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

About Alguna

AI-Native CPQ & Billing for Modern Pricing Models

Tech

## Engineering Principles ## **Build as simply as possible:** Simple is fast, and allows us to rapidly iterate and deliver business value. For every hour we spend on complex solutions, that’s an hour we’ve lost of iteration. **Be efficient:** If there’s a reasonably priced SaaS that delivers something we need for not much money, let’s not waste development hours re-implementing solved problems. **Be opinionated:** We don’t want to have several ways of solving non-novel problems, let’s use opinionated frameworks and technologies that allow us to move quickly. **Expect to iterate:** The architecture will need to evolve over time, so don’t make choices that build us into a corner. * **Account for cost.** We should assess for cost from day one rather than address it in 1-2 years. ## Stack ## **Frontend:** Our customer dashboard and website are built with NextJS, using Tailwind and React, and deployed on Vercel. **Backend:** is built using Golang and hosted on AWS

The role

### **You’re customer-obsessed:** You want to live close to real users and real problems. You get energy from turning “this is painful” into “this is fixed.”* **You’re a builder who ships:** You don’t just advise or prototype. You deliver working solutions that run in production.* **You thrive in ambiguity:** Early-stage means unclear requirements, moving targets, and learning as we go. You can still make progress fast.* **You’re relentlessly pragmatic:** You’ll make smart tradeoffs to get value out quickly, then iterate once we know what matters.* **You’re technical and versatile:** You can jump across codebases, APIs, data, infra, and integrations. Whatever the bottleneck is, you go there.* **You communicate clearly:** You can translate between customer context and engineering reality without losing nuance (or patience).* **You’re efficiency-obsessed:** You automate repetitive work, reduce manual steps, and shorten time-to-value for customers.* **You use AI as leverage:** You use AI tools to speed up debugging, integration work, scripting, docs, and iteration—while owning correctness and security.### What the job involves* **Work directly with customers:** Understand their workflows, constraints, and goals. Help them succeed with Alguna, fast.* **Build forward-deployed solutions:** Ship integrations, custom workflows, data pipelines, and product extensions that unlock customer value.* **Close the loop back into the product:** Turn repeated customer needs into scalable product improvements and reusable patterns.* **Be reactive (in a good way):** When something breaks or a customer is blocked, you jump in, triage, fix, and communicate clearly.* **Own implementations end-to-end (the fun kind):** From “wait, what do you actually need?” → design → build → deploy → monitor → iterate. If it’s flaky at 2am, you’ll care.* **Create paved paths:** Build templates, tooling, docs, and automation so the next customer goes live faster than the last.* **Partner cross-functionally:** Work tightly with engineering, product, and customer success to prioritize, scope, and ship.### What success looks like* Customers get to value quickly and stick around because things just work* Repeated customer work turns into reusable, scalable product capabilities* The team gets faster over time because you remove friction and build “paved roads”* You reliably take messy real-world problems and turn them into shipped outcomes