Sphere

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco HQ · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago

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About the role

You won't just be executing a playbook, you'll be defining it as you go.
Working directly with our Founder, Engineering team, and GTM teams, you'll define how Sphere shows up in customer environments and shape what the forward-deployed motion looks like as we scale.
This is a rare opportunity to have an outsized influence on both the product and the customer experience.

Build custom features and integrations on top of the Sphere platform for key accounts
You own it end to end. Give you a goal and you figure out your own path. Small team, global surface area - everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. No one tells you how.
You want to manage people more than own hard problems (we're a flat, experienced team - everyone builds)

Experience in an FDE or customer-facing engineering role.
Experience executing and shipping bespoke customer features, end-to-end.
You don't wait to be pointed at the answer - you go find it, and you know when to pull in someone who knows more than you.
When you work with numbers, this is a non-negotiable - it's not enough to be 99% right.
Experience working with large volumes of transaction data.
Experience in Python and Django.
Experience with React.

Backed by a16z and YC. $21M Series A, 30%+ month-over-month growth, customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Runway, and Lovable.
Small team, global surface area. Everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. San Francisco, five days in office.
The problem keeps compounding. Expanding into input tax, withholding, e-invoicing, tariffs - each multiplies the complexity. Tens of millions of transactions today, billions ahead.
Onboard customers pre-contract, get accounts functional in Sphere
Pull and interpret liability reports, help customers understand exposure
Guide customers through VAT ID collection, address hygiene, and regional compliance
Identify patterns across customers - what custom work is being requested repeatedly
Identify custom builds that could be scaled and deployed across all customers as new features or products
You believe speed and accuracy are both possible. We're building a complex product that requires robustness and 100% uptime, and we have to build at our customers' pace. Move fast. Don't break things. Both.

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