Edia Forward Deployed Engineer at Edia works directly with school district teams to integrate data and customize products. The role involves building integrations, debugging, and improving the core platform based on district needs.
Responsibilities
We’re seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to make Edia work inside the complex technical and operational environments of large school districts.
You’ll work directly with district IT teams, curriculum leaders, and operational staff to understand their systems and workflows, integrate their data, and customize Edia’s products to meet their needs.
This role sits between Customer Success Engineering and product engineering. You won’t simply collect requirements and hand them to another team. You’ll inspect unfamiliar systems, design solutions, implement integrations and product extensions, debug failures, and operate what you ship. You’ll also recognize when a district-specific request reveals a reusable capability that belongs in the core platform.
Embed with districts
Work directly with district IT, data, curriculum, and operations teams to understand their systems, constraints, and existing workflows.
Turn loosely defined customer needs into concrete technical designs, implementation plans, and production software.
Own the technical relationship from initial discovery through integration, customization, launch, and stabilization.
Build integrations and custom solutions
Build and operate integrations with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, Clever, ClassLink, and other district systems.
Implement REST API integrations, SFTP pipelines, SSO and rostering flows, data transformations, validation systems, and backfills.
Extend Edia’s products with district-specific workflows, internal tools, reports, interfaces, and automations.
Ship full-stack functionality when a successful deployment requires changes across backend services, data models, and user interfaces.
Qualification
Essential qualificationsA bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceExperience with cloud infrastructureAbility to design a systemWhat sets you apart
Required
Essential qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related rigorous technical field.
4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase.
Experience building production backend services and data integrations using REST APIs, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows.
Strong debugging skills across application code, data, infrastructure, and third-party systems.
Experience with cloud infrastructure.
Ability to design a system, implement it, and remain accountable for its behavior in production.
Excellent communication with both engineers and nontechnical stakeholders.
Comfort operating in ambiguous customer environments where the real problem must be discovered rather than simply specified.
What sets you apart
You enjoy working directly with users and domain experts.
