
Forward Deployed Engineer
New York, NYJobPosted 2w agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Pathway’s Forward Deployed Engineer owns the full product loop, working directly with restaurant operators to understand problems, define requirements and experiences, build solutions end to end, and learn from customer use after launch. The role spans product decisions and engineering across frontend, backend, data, and deployment, with an emphasis on sound judgment, rapid delivery, and adapting plans based on real-world outcomes.
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Full job description
At most companies, a customer problem passes from a product manager to a designer to an engineer, and context disappears at every handoff. We don’t work that way. In this role you own the entire loop: understand the problem, define what should exist, decide the fastest credible path to it, build it end to end, put it in front of customers, and change the plan when reality proves you wrong. You’ll work directly with restaurant operators and carry important problems across requirements, UX, frontend, backend, data, deployment, and post-launch outcomes. “Product” means you can go from a messy customer problem to clear requirements and an opinionated ideal solution. “Engineer” means you can reason from the problem into the systems required to solve it, and use coding agents aggressively without outsourcing judgment to them. This is not a frontend engineer with good taste, and it is not a product manager who can code — it is both disciplines practiced as one job.What you'll do- Start with restaurant operators, understand the problem beneath what they ask for, and turn it into clear requirements- Define the ideal experience and decide what the first version must prove- Build the highest-priority products end to end, wherever the company and its customers need you most- Use taste and judgment to simplify complexity for people who don’t think about software all day- Ship quickly without confusing speed with sloppiness — build durable foundations where failure has real consequences, take shortcuts where learning matters more than polish- Watch customers use what you built and update both the product and the plan — a feature being deployed is not the same as a problem being solved
How this job compares
Set against the 2,916 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$156–250K/yr242 salary ranges
- US median$31–91/hr62 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 315 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in New York and 2,916 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (2,556 postings).
- Education
- 630 of the 2,916 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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