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About the Role

Alternative Payments is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build systems that solve real business problems for internal teams. This role involves owning initiatives end-to-end, partnering with various departments, and exploring new product concepts, internal tooling, automations, and AI agents. You will focus on internal AI data infrastructure, replicating external SaaS tools, building business-critical dashboards, and developing net-new product POCs. A key aspect is ensuring the reliability and production-grade quality of all developed systems, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted development and guardrails.

Responsibilities

Own initiatives end-to-end, partnering closely with operations, data, and product.
Explore net-new product POCs and build internal tooling, automations, and AI agents/agentic workflows.
Develop internal AI data infrastructure to consolidate business knowledge and make it usable across teams.
Build internal versions of Sales, CS, and Marketing tools tailored to company workflows.
Create and maintain operational dashboards, Finance dashboards, and Super Admin dashboards, including automations.
Take projects from prototype to production-ready systems, including internal applications, automations, product integrations, and agentic workflows.
Collaborate with the Product Engineering team on early-stage ideas, translating business context into technical decisions.
Review AI-assisted development work for safety, reliability, and to prevent technical debt.
Design and build systems with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
Participate in code reviews, provide architecture feedback, and adhere to shared standards.
Support non-technical subject matter experts in deploying product, building systems, and refining coding harnesses.
Step up, make decisions, and take accountability for outcomes in a high-autonomy team environment.

Requirements

Deep architectural knowledge to assess system design and effectiveness.
Platform/infrastructure fluency, understanding layers beneath the application (e.g., Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines).
Strong software engineering ability across the full stack, with experience shipping production code independently and owning systems end-to-end.
An AI-native operating bias, integrating multiple AI models, custom agents, and specialized contexts into workflows.
Proficiency in, or ability to quickly learn, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Go, Rust, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Experience designing and evolving scalable systems with a clear understanding of tradeoffs.
Demonstrated ability to take a project from end-to-end, including technical execution, stakeholder communication, and delivery accountability.
Cross-functional instincts, comfortable switching context between Operations, Product, and Data teams.
A bias toward business impact, with a desire to solve real operational problems and understand business mechanics.
Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the judgment to work autonomously and make decisions.
Pragmatism and speed, knowing when to build quickly versus robustly.
Experience at a fintech or payments company, or in roles close to money movement (nice-to-have).
Experience contributing to billing, payments, or quote-to-cash systems (nice-to-have).
Experience building internal tools, admin panels, or business-facing dashboards (nice-to-have).
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., RabbitMQ) (nice-to-have).
Background at a fast-scaling startup or experience owning systems end-to-end close to the business (nice-to-have).

Skills

TypeScript
Next.js
Python
Go
Rust
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
AWS
AI
AI agents
Agentic workflows
Data infrastructure
Internal tooling
Automation
System design
Scalable systems
Full-stack development
Frontend development
Backend development
Stakeholder communication
Event-driven architectures

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Mid-level
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 - $250,000

Benefits

Equity opportunities
Unlimited PTO
Yearly learning & development stipend

About the Company

Alternative Payments is building the financial operating system for SMBs, consolidating disconnected technology stacks.
The company focuses on service-based businesses, starting with MSPs, and is expanding into accounts payable, AI-powered analytics, and more.
Alternative Payments is at an inflection point, aiming to reshape how service businesses operate financially.
The company is growing fast, thinking big, and building a global team.
They believe in diverse perspectives, deep collaboration, and customer impact.
The company values transparency, honesty, resourcefulness, AI-driven solutions, partnership, boldness, and accountability.

Equal Opportunity

Alternative Payments is committed to an inclusive and accessible process.
If accommodation is required during the hiring process, please let them know upon selection for an interview.