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Middesk is building the data and intelligence infrastructure that helps businesses work together with confidence. We started by creating a comprehensive platform for understanding businesses, bringing together authoritative and proprietary data to help customers verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and manage risk throughout the customer lifecycle.
Today, Middesk is used by more than 700 banks and fintechs, and in 2025 we verified more than 7 million companies. We've also expanded beyond business verification to help companies form, register, manage, and maintain their businesses, supporting more than 50,000 companies in setting up over 100,000 accounts required to hire employees, run payroll, and stay compliant.
Middesk came out of Y Combinator, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi. We're proud to be named on the Forbes Fintech 50 and Best Startup Employers lists.
About the Role:We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and real customer problems.
You'll work directly with customers and internal teams to design, build, and deploy production-grade integrations and AI-driven systems. You'll own complex technical problems end-to-end, from understanding customer needs to shipping reliable systems in production. You'll also turn what you learn in the field into improvements that shape Middesk's product and engineering direction.
This role is ideal for a recovering founder, a former core engineer who misses direct customer impact, or someone who thrives on ownership and wants to build real systems where the feedback loop is immediate.
What You’ll Do:Build and deploy real systems: Partner with customers to design, implement, and operate production-grade integrations using Middesk APIs, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
Own deployments end-to-end: Drive technical design, implementation, rollout, and iteration, making pragmatic trade-offs across speed, reliability, and scalability.
Build AI-powered workflows: Develop LLM- and agent-based systems, including evals, test harnesses, and feedback loops to measure and improve quality.
Solve ambiguous problems: Tackle complex customer challenges without established playbooks, working across backend systems, infrastructure, and tooling.
Shape the product: Turn customer learnings into reusable solutions, internal tooling, and product improvements that benefit the broader customer base.
3+ years of experience building and shipping production software, with strong proficiency in either Python or Ruby and at least one other language (TypeScript, Go, etc.).
Experience designing and operating APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Strong debugging skills and comfort working across the stack, from backend systems to integrations and infrastructure.
Ability to independently own ambiguous technical problems and make sound architectural trade-offs.
Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating directly with customers and cross-functional teams.
Experience building or deploying LLM-powered applications, agents, or AI workflows, including familiarity with evals and common failure modes.
Former founder or early-stage startup engineer.
Experience in fintech, compliance, identity, risk, or fraud.
Experience building developer tools, workflow automation, or reliability and observability systems.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production environments
- Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead or domain owner for a team or major system
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (TypeScript, Go, etc.)
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Strong debugging instincts and an ownership mindset
- Strong communication skills-- able to articulate trade-offs clearly to engineers, product, and non-technical stakeholders
Middesk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive with medical, dental, and vision, and employee premiums are fully covered, indicating robust core protection.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive structures, especially for sales roles, are portrayed as attractive with strong earning potential when targets are met.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is included for full-time hires across roles, providing broad access to ownership alongside competitive base pay.
Middesk Insights
What We Do
Middesk makes it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we’ve been transforming business identity verification, replacing slow, manual processes with seamless access to complete, up-to-date data. Our platform helps companies across industries confidently verify business identities, onboard customers faster, and reduce risk at every stage of the customer lifecycle. Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to Forbes Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader in business verification by digital identity strategy firm, Liminal.
Why Work With Us
We value curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives. We're excited about the scope of the problems we're working to solve. We look at situations based on first principles and prefer learning by doing. We have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're passionate about our craft, hobbies, and the relationships we build.
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