Tread

AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will act as a technical bridge between customers and the product by working in the field and shipping software. You will lead technical implementations, build custom integrations, and turn customer pain points into shipped features using the company codebase.

What you will do

  • Lead technical implementation for new customers including API integrations and data mapping
  • Build custom integrations, data pipelines, and automation
  • Debug and resolve technical issues in the field
  • Own the technical relationship for assigned mid-market accounts
  • Turn customer pain points into shipped features
  • Contribute directly to the Rails API, GraphQL, and React codebase
  • Prototype and validate solutions with customers
  • Build agents and internal tooling to automate manual tasks
  • Identify expansion opportunities and execute revenue growth with existing customers
  • Plan and facilitate QBRs with strategic accounts

Required qualifications

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience
  • Ability to write production code in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Python, or equivalent
  • Comfort with APIs, databases, and data pipelines
  • Ability to read a GraphQL schema, debug an integration, and write a migration
  • Customer-facing instincts
  • Bias toward action
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Willingness to travel frequently to customer sites (at least once a month)
  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Daily, opinionated use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

Nice to have

  • Construction technology, heavy civil, logistics, supply chain, or field-services experience
  • Built integrations or worked on implementation teams before
  • Shipped features based on direct customer feedback in a fast-moving engineering org
  • Understand what a dispatcher or scale operator actually does on a Tuesday morning
  • Worked at a Series A–C startup under 50 people

Before you apply

  • Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
  • Tread is unable to provide visa sponsorship or future sponsorship support

About the company

Tread is an AI-native vertical SaaS platform transforming construction materials logistics. It is a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital.

AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer at Tread | JobZoey