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Forward Deployed Engineer — Concourse

Bessemer portfolio2,433 open roles

Pay
$140,000 – $190,000 a year
Where
New York City, New York, United States; New York City
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Your applicationOpen nowForward Deployed Engineer — ConcourseBessemer portfolio · New York City, New York, United States; New York City

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Why This Role

Concourse is building the operating system for State and Local governments. Our platform is a configurable approach to tackling fragmented government data and workflows, turning them into smooth operations for public servants and the constituents they serve. Every product we ship (e.g., school-district IT helpdesk, city-wide ERP, county-wide bail management system) is configured and customized by a Forward-Deployed team, ensuring the final-mile delivery of our software is relevant to our customers’ workflows.

You're the technical horsepower to a forward deployed PM paired with you on every project. That means rolling up your sleeves on the data models, workflows, and components (built as reusable scaffolding instead of a one-off), while the PM leans into customer solutioning alongside you. You’re extending and hardening our platform’s scaffolding against a new customer's specific requirements.

Our platform engineers hand you the connectors, workflow engine, and low-level primitives that everything is built on. You sit in the layer above that, building and continuously improving the product-type scaffolding that every FDPM you work with will reuse.

Government workflows are messy and legacy systems fight you at every turn. What you build here compounds.

What You'll Do

  • Pair with an FDPM on every project for a given product category, from the first build through every deployment after it
  • On a new product type, design and build the components, data models, and workflows as reusable scaffolding
  • On later deployments of a product type, extend and harden that scaffolding against each new customer's specific data and edge cases, while the FDPM handles configuration and finishing touches
  • Get your hands dirty with real government data: legacy exports, mainframe extracts, undocumented APIs, and the inevitable exceptions that come with it
  • Use AI coding tools to build and iterate quickly, shipping working modules against a live customer instead of a backlog
  • Feed what you learn about the platform's gaps back to the Platform Engineering team so the lower-level primitives improve with every product category you build

What We're Looking For

  • A portfolio: what have you built end-to-end, from scratch, under pressure?
  • Strong backend fluency, with good instincts for abstraction: knowing what to generalize into reusable scaffolding vs. what to leave specific to one customer
  • Enough frontend ability to build and ship a usable UI without needing to hand it off
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Factory, etc.) as a core part of your daily workflow
  • Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders alongside an FDPM, even if you're not the one owning the relationship
  • High-agency, high-velocity mindset: comfortable being the first engineer into a brand-new product category, and just as comfortable staying paired in on every deployment after it
  • US citizen (required for government work)
  • Willing to work in-person in Flatiron, NYC (5 days/week)

Nice to have: experience building internal tooling, developer platforms, or reusable component libraries; prior startup experience shipping directly to customers; public sector domain knowledge (courts, permitting, utilities, school districts); or experience working with legacy/mainframe data.

About Concourse

Concourse is the fastest-growing govtech, providing software to more than 100 state and local governments across the U.S.

Government calls what we do "IT modernization." We call it a trillion-dollar opportunity to overhaul how government works. Public services are broken not because of bureaucracy but instead because they run on antiquated, user-unfriendly software from legacy vendors.

Some examples: Concourse is powering the legislative management system for one of America's largest cities, a state's entire online bail payment system, and a case-management platform for mental-health response teams.

We are an AI-native company. Our org structure and staffing model are radically different from those of legacy tech companies: we have a flat team of superstar generalists who both own client relationships and manage fleets of long-horizon AI agents.

Our team works together in our Flatiron office five days a week.

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