Forward-Deployed Engineer, API

About the role

This role is the first dedicated to the API product at Vector, a contact-level advertising platform. You will own the API product’s roadmap, reliability, and trajectory, working closely with engineering and leadership to prioritize features and build them yourself.

Responsibilities

• API product ownership: Prioritize and build features based on customer needs and product direction.
• Technical onboarding and integration support: Guide customers through implementation, troubleshoot issues, and build tools for repeatable onboarding.
• Developer enablement: Build and maintain resources for self-service and quick fixes for customers.
• Pre-sales technical scoping: Scope technical integrations during sales conversations, understanding the prospect's stack and defining the integration.
• Feedback loop to product and engineering: Surface patterns and provide insights to inform product and engineering decisions.

Requirements

• 3+ years in a technical role with meaningful customer-facing or product-facing exposure.
• Experience with ad tech, martech, or B2B marketing platforms.
• Familiarity with identity resolution, audience targeting, or data integration workflows.
• Experience building or maintaining SDKs, developer documentation, or API reference sites.
• Background working with TypeScript/Node.js, AWS, or data pipeline tooling.
• Experience working at a YC company or similar high-velocity early-stage environment.
• Experience as the first hire in a function and building from zero.

Qualifications

• Comfortable writing production-quality code.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Technical skills across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and debugging.
• Ownership mindset: proactive in fixing or figuring out problems.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and meaningful equity.
• Full benefits.
• A seat at the table for product and GTM decisions.
• The chance to own something, not support or maintain something.

Pay

$100K - $200K

Schedule

Boston, MA, US