Forward Deployed Engineer

Job overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer role is hybrid in Palo Alto, CA, with office work Tuesday through Thursday and remote work Monday and Friday; compensation is not specified. ProductNow’s mission is to make organizational knowledge accessible and preserve decisions, context, and institutional know-how. The engineer embeds with customers to understand high-stakes problems and takes solutions from discovery through deployment. Working closely with product and engineering, the role delivers user-facing features and adapts implementation choices to customer environments while balancing delivery speed and maintainability.

What you'll do

• Embed with customers to solve problems hands-on
• own work from discovery through deployed solution
• partner with product and engineering
• serve as a technical advisor and primary customer contact
• balance shipping speed with long-term maintainability
• explore tools and technology stacks suited to customer environments
• contribute to a collaborative team culture while working independently in the field.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

forward deployed engineer

full-time

productnow

palo alto ca

hybrid

customer-embedded

full-stack development

react

typescript

node.js

django

tuesday–thursday office

no new visa sponsorship

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Seeks a full-stack builder with at least one year of frontend or full-stack development experience, React knowledge, and experience with a backend framework. The listing states that new visa sponsorship is unavailable at this time.

About the employer

ProductNow is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.