Lago
SaaS
ForwardDeployedEngineer
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“Forward Deployed Engineer at Lago. Skills: Forward Deployed Engineering, Customer Integration, Billing Systems. Own technical delivery for Tier 1 customers. Design architecture”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure adoption; Ensure scalability; Ensure impact; Turn product flexibility into customer success
Industry & Context.
Solve hard problems; Navigate ambiguity
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years API experience, 4+ years SDK experience, Deep understanding REST APIs, Deep understanding authentication, Deep understanding integration patterns, SQL skills, Data modeling skills, Experience designing integrations, Experience deploying integrations, Excellent written communication, Excellent verbal communication, Manage delivery timelines, Coordinate across teams
Nice to Have
Ruby on Rails APIs experience, React experience, TypeScript experience, PostgreSQL experience, Redis experience, Kafka experience, Technical consulting experience, Professional services experience, Customer engineering experience, Terraform familiarity, Docker familiarity, CI/CD environments familiarity, Billing background, Payments background, Developer platforms background, Open-source contribution, Customer-led product delivery
What You'll Do.
Own technical delivery for Tier 1 customers
Build custom integrations
Design data ingestion pipelines
Design automation scripts
Configure billing setups
Configure metering setups
Configure event processing setups
Collaborate with Support Engineers
Collaborate with Core Engineering
Write best-practice templates
Surface recurring patterns
Mentor customer teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Support Engineers; Core Engineering; Product teams; Customer teams
Communication Scope
Technical detail; Customer empathy
Process & Methodology
Delivery timelines
Full Job Description
ABOUT LAGO At Lago, we're on a mission to make Monetization simpler for tech companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we help businesses build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We've raised over $22 million in funding from top-tier investors including Y Combinator and FirstMark. Our platform has garnered around 10K stars on GitHub, a testament to our active and growing developer community. Companies such as PayPal, CoreWeave, Synthesia, and Mistral.ai http://Mistral.ai choose Lago for their billing. And we have barely spent any money on Marketing or Ads so far. We're a team of ambitious, focused individuals who solve hard problems with excellence and accountability. At Lago, we value reliability and proactivity. We trust each other to own tasks, drive them to completion, and continuously improve them. While we encourage you to try fast and “fail fast”, we also expect you to learn fast: make mistakes, but don't make the same one twice. If you're excited by challenges and want to grow alongside a high-performing, supportive team, this is the place for you. OVERVIEW At Lago, Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are engineers embedded with customers. They build, integrate, and optimize Lago in production environments: ensuring adoption, scalability, and impact. This role blends engineering depth with delivery ownership and customer collaboration. You’ll write code, deploy systems, and translate real-world use cases into product-ready insights. FDEs are not part of the reactive support queue, and they’re not isolated in core product development. They sit at the intersection of engineering and delivery: the engineers who turn product flexibility into customer success. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING - Own technical delivery for Tier 1 customers: from architecture design to deployment. - Build custom integrations, connectors, and workflows using Lago’s Ruby on Rails APIs, React, and TypeScript stack. - Design data ingestion pipelines and automation script
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