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About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cardless, you will own the technical relationship for new partner launches end-to-end, from initial scoping to production deployment. You will work hands-on with partner codebases, design integrations, write documentation, and coordinate with internal and external teams to ensure successful product launches. This role requires developing a deep understanding of partner applications and identifying platform improvements based on partner needs.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical relationship for new partner launches end to end, from the first scoping workshop through the first approved application in production
- Develop real product sense for each partner's app: where our application, offer, and card management surfaces belong in their flow
- Write the integration guides, API specs, and sandbox tooling partners build against, so they can self-serve
- Decide what we build bespoke for a partner versus what becomes a supported platform feature, and invest in the integration platform so each launch is faster than the last
- Travel to partners, run onsites and workshops, and pull risk, compliance, and our processor and bank partners through whatever is blocking a launch
Requirements
- 6+ years building production backend systems, including work shipped with a partner or customer in the loop rather than behind a product manager
- Ability to go genuinely deep on systems and hold an end-to-end flow in your head
- Ability to debug someone else's integration against a system faster than they can
- Strong with partners: can run a technical conversation with their engineers and explain the same tradeoff to their business team without changing the substance
- Product sense you'll actually use: can reason about where a card application, offer, or servicing surface belongs in a partner's journey, and make the case for a different placement when the one they asked for will hurt their customers
- Sound judgment on bespoke versus platform, being able to say no and explain why certain requests doesn’t make sense
Skills
- Fintech
- Payments
- Card issuing experience
- Experience with processors, networks, or bank partners
- Forward deployed engineering
- Solutions engineering
- Deployed engineering
- API design
- Developer experience
- OpenAPI
- SDKs and codegen
- Sandbox environments
- Versioning
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- In-office 5 days a week
Experience Level
- 6+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000 - $295,000
Benefits
- Meaningful Start-up equity
- 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
- 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
- Catered lunches
- $250/month Commuter benefit
- Parental leave
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
- Apple equipment
- 401k plan
About the Company
- Cardless is building the infrastructure for the world's best companies to design, build, and launch financial products of their own.
- Companies like Coinbase and Bilt use Cardless to create credit cards that feel entirely their own.
- Our APIs and components shape the journey from the first application to every purchase, reward, and moment of support that follows, while we handle lending, compliance, and operations behind the scenes.
- In September 2025, we raised a $60 million Series C led by Spark Capital, bringing our total funding to $170 million.
- The team is over 70 people and scaling toward profitability by year-end 2026.
- We're looking for kind, humble people with high standards and low egos.
- We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.
- We see what could be improved, make it so, and leave every product, system, and team better than we found it.