Forward Deployed Engineer

Posted 2 Months Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
170K-250K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Build, configure, and launch production AI agents on Kastle's platform; write backend and full‑stack code to integrate with loan servicing, data sources, and telephony; own full agent lifecycle (prototype, CI/CD, monitoring, iterate); act as technical lead in customer accounts and feed learnings into product roadmap.
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About Kastle

Kastle is building the AI employee for banks. We work with some of America's financial institutions, helping them scale their contact center and compliance operations using autonomous AI Agents that process payments, originate loans, and help customers get a world class experience during the biggest financial decisions of their lives. We've processed over $2 billion in transactions and are backed by Insight Partners and Y Combinator. If you are interested in building AI that is applied in the real world where precision, reliability, and performance matter and redefine access to credit across the world, apply below.

We just raised a $24M Series A and are growing fast!

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Kastle, you re-program entire companies.

You are not measured by technical complexity nor lines of code, but by ownership of business outcomes. Agency, judgment, and customer understanding are equally if not more valuable in this role as strong software engineering ability.

 

You will be driving a fundamental shift in how enterprises operate and how the largest banks in the world operate. You will own our most strategic customers to build and deploy automation and software that was previously impossible. These are not incremental improvements; you'll be replacing load-bearing workflows in production that previously consumed hundreds of thousands of human hours.


This role sits at the intersection of engineering, customer partnership, and operational excellence. You'll go deep into complex enterprise workflows, architect robust Agents using the Kastle Platform.

 

This role will be the best role for you if you are someone that is excited by business and solving real problems instead of only deriving value from writing code.

Responsibilities
  • Build, configure, and launch AI agents on Kastle’s platform to handle real borrower workflows

  • Write production-grade backend and full-stack code (Python, Java, TypeScript) to integrate with loan servicing systems, data sources, and telephony platforms.

  • Own the full agent development life cycle: prototype quickly, set up CI/CD, monitor live usage, iterate to targets, and document best practices to speed up future projects.

  • Scope ambiguous customer asks, prototype quickly, and iterate into stable deployments.

  • Act as the technical face of Kastle in key accounts, building trust through speed, empathy, and impact.

  • Feed customer learnings back into the core product, influencing roadmap and reusable tooling.

What We’re Looking For
  • At-least 3 years of engineering experience, and 1 year of customer facing experience.

  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar; comfortable building APIs and backend systems.

  • Bias toward outcomes: you care more about unblocking customers and delivering value than perfect abstractions.

  • Strong work ethic; very high attention to detail; can own a project end-to-end with limited or no guidance.

  • Customer-centric: confident working directly with business leaders as well as engineers.

Interview Process
  • 15 min interview with our Talent Lead to learn more about the role

  • 1 hour live coding interview with CTO/Founding Engineer

  • 1 hour AI agent design interview with CTO

  • 1 day onsite at HQ

Why join Kastle
  • Opportunity to work with a world class team building a generational AI company that will redefine how every loan in America is made and managed

  • Ability to move fast while your work impacting millions of customers. Add a new feature in a few days and ship it to top 10 lenders the next week.

  • Competitive Compensation + Meaningful Equity at a high growth company

  • High ownership and direct input on product direction, company culture, and how the FDE function scales

 

Other Perks and Benefits

  • Free MLO training and support

  • Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage

  • 401(K) plan offering

  • Paid Company Meals

  • Company offsites to get to know the team

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of engineering experience
  • 1+ year of customer-facing experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar; comfortable building APIs and backend systems
  • Experience writing production-grade backend and full-stack code (Python, Java, TypeScript)
  • Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, prototyping, and deploying production services
  • Customer-centric communication skills; able to scope ambiguous asks and act as technical face of the company
  • Bias toward outcomes, strong work ethic, high attention to detail, ability to own projects end-to-end
  • Previous customer-facing engineering role (forward deployed, solutions engineer, etc.)
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The Company
768 Employees
Year Founded: 1972

What We Do

Kastle AI is an AI platform for consumer lending and servicing that provides an AI operating system to automate borrower interactions, ensure compliance, and reduce costs for mortgage lenders. Using AI voice agents, the platform integrates with existing contact centers and payment systems to modernize operations without disruption, managing high-volume phone calls from loan inquiry to payoff.

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