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AjaxPosted Nov 5, 2026
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
New York Cityfull timeOn Site$210k–$270kH1B: no
Ajax The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Ajax extends the company's data capture mechanism to solve technical problems for large law firms. The role involves discovering customer problems, prototyping solutions, and shipping customer-facing features.
Responsibilities
- The core function of this role is to extend Ajax's data capture mechanism to solve previously-intractable technical problems for America's largest law firms.
- Discover customer problems
- Prototype solutions
- Extend these prototypes into paid products
- By day 30: you'll have built a new billing system integration, unlocking meaningful revenue in a new segment of the legal market. Building these integrations requires a bit of grit, but it's all worth it to see new firms start pilots and convert - and that starts the flywheel of customer trust that unlocks meaningful product work.
- By day 60: you'll ship a meaningful customer-facing feature. To figure out what to build, you'll lean on your initial relationships and get up to speed on how law firms operate. Some sample first projects you might work on: a client-management page, our iOS application, or
- By day 90: you'll work with bigger law firms, build on your customer relationships, and help us figure out what to build next.
Qualification
OwnershipEmpathyResourceful*my coworker AndrewYou’ll excel here ifYou like adventureHow far along are we?
Required
- Ownership: a wise man* once said the difference between senior engineers and junior engineers is that senior engineers own the feature into production and beyond. Is that you?
- Empathy: to build features end-to-end, you must be able to walk in our customers' shoes. Our company makes BS work go away for lawyers that work really hard; that needs to speak to you.
- Resourceful: you're scrappy: you prefer figuring bugs out yourself to throwing your hands up.
Benefits
- Dental
- Vision
- PTO
- Equity/RSU
Company
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