engineering
Posted Apr 15Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
at Sphere
On-site
Requirements
- Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts.
- Working directly with our Founder, Engineering team, and GTM teams, you'll define how Sphere shows up in customer environments and shape what the forward-deployed motion looks like as we scale.
- Experience in an FDE or customer-facing engineering role. -
- Experience working with large volumes of transaction data. You’ll be getting very familiar with it! -
- Experience in Python and Django. Our core application backend and data pipeline services are built with Python and Django -
- Experience with React.
Benefits
- We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime. - Backed by a16z and YC. $21M Series A, 30%+ month-over-month growth, customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Runway, and Lovable. - Small team, global surface area.
- Expanding into input tax, withholding, e-invoicing, tariffs — each multiplies the complexity.
Additional details
- ABOUT SPHERE Every breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market.
- Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up.
- They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.
- Everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company.
- San Francisco, five days in office. - The problem keeps compounding.
- Tens of millions of transactions today, billions ahead.
- THE ROLE As the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Sphere, you’ll embed directly with Sphere's most strategic customers to understand their cross-border business workflows, identify the highest-impact compliance challenges, and design and deliver custom solutions that make Sphere fit seamlessly into their operations.
- You won't just be executing a playbook, you'll be defining it as you go.
- This is a rare opportunity to have an outsized influence on both the product and the customer experience.
- This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on owning problems end-to-end, from discovery to deployment, and who are energized by the challenge of translating intricate, jurisdiction-specific regulatory