Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer

Location - New York City, NY (Hybrid) - Three days per week in-office near Penn Station, NYC.

Compensation - $180,000 – $220,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa - US Citizens / Green Card Holders Only — No Visa Sponsorship or Transfers

Company Stage - Early Stage – $2M Funding

Industry - PropTech, Real Estate, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, B2B SaaS

About the Company

Our client is building a self-service leasing platform designed to modernize the rental experience while helping property owners and operators reduce the time and cost associated with leasing.

The platform enables prospective renters to explore properties independently through AI-powered guided tours, providing a convenient and highly informed experience without requiring onsite leasing staff.

The product integrates deeply with property management systems, CRM platforms, and access-control systems, enabling property operators to automate and streamline the leasing process across their existing technology stack.

The company has launched across more than 30,000 residential units in the United States and is now building its first in-house engineering organization to take full ownership of the platform and accelerate product development.

As a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll have significant ownership over the integration layer powering the platform, working directly with customers to understand technical requirements and building custom integrations with complex property management systems.

This is an opportunity to join a small, high-ownership engineering team where your work will directly impact enterprise customers and ship rapidly into production.

What You'll Do

• Own and build integrations with third-party property management systems such as Yardi, Entrata, and RealPage
• Develop and maintain integrations with custom and proprietary client systems
• Join customer calls to understand technical requirements and integration needs
• Translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Design and build zero-to-one integrations for enterprise customers
• Develop reliable REST APIs and backend services using Python and FastAPI
• Build integration workflows connecting property management, CRM, and access-control systems
• Troubleshoot complex integration issues across customer environments
• Work directly with customers to debug and resolve technical problems
• Own the integration layer from initial requirements through production deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Collaborate closely with platform engineering and product teams
• Refactor and improve existing integration architecture as the platform scales
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, maintainability, and scalability
• Build reusable integration patterns and infrastructure
• Contribute to broader platform architecture and engineering decisions
• Take ownership of technical problems beyond narrowly defined requirements
• Operate independently in a fast-moving startup environment
• Ship production code quickly while maintaining strong engineering quality

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience building production software
• Experience building and maintaining third-party integrations
• Experience working directly with customers on technical projects
• Experience owning technical projects from requirements through production
• Experience building APIs and backend services
• Experience working with complex or undocumented external systems
• Experience operating in startup or high-growth environments preferred
• Experience building zero-to-one integrations
• Strong ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly
• Comfortable working across engineering, product, and customer-facing functions
• Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated execution ability
• Comfortable operating independently without extensive management
• Experience with enterprise customer integrations preferred

Technical Requirements

• Strong Python engineering experience
• Strong FastAPI experience
• Strong REST API development fundamentals
• Experience designing and consuming third-party APIs
• Experience integrating external enterprise systems
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals
• Experience debugging production integrations
• Strong understanding of API authentication, data flows, and error handling
• Experience working with structured and unstructured external APIs
• Strong software architecture and system design fundamentals
• Experience building reliable production services
• Strong testing and debugging practices
• Experience refactoring and scaling existing backend systems
• Ability to work effectively with unfamiliar technical systems
• Strong understanding of integration reliability and production operations

Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field preferred
• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• Equivalent practical engineering experience accepted

Soft Skills

• Exceptional engineering ownership
• Strong customer empathy
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• High execution velocity
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Strong technical communication skills
• Comfortable speaking directly with customers
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Bias toward action
• Low-ego collaborative mentality
• Comfortable working with a small engineering team
• Strong attention to engineering quality
• Comfortable learning complex systems quickly
• Willingness to take ownership beyond a narrow technical scope
• Strong startup mentality
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $180,000 – $220,000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Opportunity to join a growing early-stage technology company
• Significant ownership over enterprise integrations
• Direct customer interaction and technical ownership
• Opportunity to help build the first in-house engineering organization
• Direct collaboration with engineering leadership
• Opportunity to work across APIs, integrations, backend infrastructure, and AI-powered products
• High-growth startup environment
• Significant influence over engineering architecture and product development

Why Join

This is an opportunity to join a growing PropTech company at a pivotal stage of its engineering evolution.

You'll work directly on the integrations and infrastructure that connect a modern leasing platform with complex property management, CRM, and access-control systems used by real estate operators.

As one of the early members of the in-house engineering team, you'll have significant ownership over architecture, integrations, customer implementations, and the evolution of the platform.

If you enjoy solving messy technical problems, working directly with customers, building integrations from scratch, and operating with high autonomy in a small engineering organization, this role offers exceptional technical and product impact.