Founding Product Engineer (Forward Deployed)

Headcount: 1

Job Details

• Experience: 2–5 years
• Equity: Competitive equity
• Visa sponsorship: H-1B, O-1
• Employment type: Full-time
• Work type: In person

Benefits & Perks

• Meals
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

About This Role

As the Founding Product Engineer (Forward Deployed), you will be the engineer our customers know by name. The role is roughly 60% building and 40% customer-facing work, including integration calls, live demos at events, and independently onboarding customers or vendors, including visiting their offices. Travel is mostly within the Bay Area, with about 10% outside it. This is an in-person role at Lane’s San Francisco office, roughly six days a week (Sunday through Friday), with weekend flexibility.

You will:

• Own customer integrations from the first call through live transactions: work alongside customer engineers, write integration code, and debug edge cases on both sides.
• Build enterprise-quality features for the core user-facing products: the Wallet and business console.
• Own developer experience by creating documentation, quickstarts, and reference integrations that help customers use the APIs and SDKs built by the backend team. Use time to first transaction as your metric.
• Build demos and pilots that are robust enough to run in production.
• Turn recurring customer requests into evidence-backed roadmap items.

Requirements

• Experience in forward-deployed, solutions, or sales engineering, selling to technical buyers and supporting integrations.
• Full-stack web product experience across front end and back end (TypeScript, React, Node.js, or Python).
• Comfort running demos at events and independently owning customer onboarding.
• Comfort with AI agents and LLM tooling.
• Availability to work roughly six days a week (Sunday through Friday).