Client Engineer

Our ideal candidate is an expert in their tools. They’ve used their chosen tools to build software repeatedly, and they gain energy from understanding how the tools work. Our ideal candidate is obsessively curious, motivated by customer outcomes, and is a technical artist.

We use Python, Postgres, and Unix to build and deploy our backends and React.js with TypeScript to build our frontends. We maintain a set of internal tools to deterministically generate Python and Typescript. We obsess over how to build compounding advantages in tooling, software, and product.

FSH engineering will appeal to you if you’d like to work on a team that strives for simplicity in tech stack and approach, aggressively builds internal tools and platforms, has a deeply technical leader, only works on things that move the needle for the business, and doesn’t take itself too seriously.

The FSH approach to building bespoke full stack applications for our customers quickly depends on engineers’ direct interaction with customers. Your work will balance the deeply technical with the fundamentally human. You will often be asked to play the role of product thinker or aesthete, and will succeed when you obsessively demonstrate customer empathy. Client engineers work with a set of clients at a time, and balance doing compounding work or improving the platform with shipping features in consultation with the customer.

What you’ll do

Build and maintain software for customers

Seek and ingest feedback

Iterate quickly

Define engineering culture

What you’ll need

Experience shipping software to users

[preferred] Experience working at a venture backed company

[preferred] A civic background

You’re the right person for the job if:

You believe programming is a creative pursuit

You are a perennial tinkerer

You gain energy from being close to the customer, always

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Modern inventory management is best handled through Venetian double entry accounting

Buddhist meditation and dialectical behavior therapy are closely related

The distribution of crater sizes on the moon follow a power law

Rivers and their tributaries, blood vessels, lunch bronchi, broccoli, and lightning bolts all demonstrate related patterns

Employees are expected to live in New York City or Philadelphia and work out of our office in either location.