Forward Deployed Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and deploy our software in customer environments, ensuring reliability and performance across complex workflows.
• Troubleshoot issues across backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, databases, and the frontend.
• Travel to customer sites and embed with operations teams, building trusted technical relationships.
• Prototype products and iterate quickly with live customer data and direct feedback.
• Act as the voice of the customer in product discussions, translating field insights into roadmap priorities, solutions, and integrations.
• Partner with Product & Engineering to turn successful prototypes into production code.
• Develop playbooks for repeatable integrations and maintain clear documentation and training resources.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on customer-facing roles.
• Proven track record of building, deploying, or supporting production software in mission-critical environments.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python; experience with TypeScript, Java, or similar is a plus. Experience building software with AI tools such as Cursor, Amp, ChatGPT. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), databases, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong product sense: ability to question requirements, spot patterns, solve problems for the users. Bias toward action: comfortable shipping prototypes quickly and iterating. Adaptability and curiosity, thriving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.

Why you'll love working at Quindar

• We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
• Each year we have an annual company offsite.