Forward Deployed Engineer, Valon Mortgage

• Experienced engineer: 1–5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with product ownership or startup DNA
• Builder, not a theorist: You care about outcomes. You bias toward MVPs, fast iterations, and visible impact over perfect code
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You can decompose fuzzy asks, prioritize independently, and execute without a spec
• Customer-centric: You’ve worked directly with users or clients, and you can speak business and code
• Owner mindset: You step up when something needs doing. You solve problems even when they “aren’t yours.”
• This is a role for engineers who want to move fast, build with purpose, and make their fingerprints visible across the product and business
• You unblock customers and get them live—fast
• You turn ambiguous asks into working software in days, not months
• You’re trusted by product, sales, and clients alike
• Your builds become product, not just prototypes
• You step up when others are still figuring out who owns the problem

Desirable

• We are building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance—starting with mortgage servicing. Our system of record powers real operations at national scale, with $100B+ in loans, 500K+ customers, and AI agents executing real workflows
• As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll be the technical arm of our most strategic partnerships—rapidly building bespoke solutions that drive customer value, unblock deployments, and ultimately shape our core product
• You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, product, and GTM—embedding deeply with customers to understand their needs and shipping solutions that make our software indispensable
• This is not a roadmap-bound role. You’ll move fast, own messy business problems, and deliver value in days—not quarters
• Accelerate deployments by building high-impact integrations and prototypes for our most strategic enterprise clients
• Unblock revenue by solving the “last mile” of adoption—translating ambiguous needs into working software
• Bridge product and GTM by embedding with sales, product, and customer success teams to shape deployments and inform roadmap
• Own technical execution end-to-end: scope, build, debug, deploy, and iterate
• Act as the technical face of Valon in key accounts—building trust through speed, empathy, and impact
• If you’re excited by zero-to-one work, this is one of the most impactful roles at Valon. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are on the front lines of our software expansion—solving high-leverage customer problems, unlocking revenue, and shaping the roadmap in real time
• We’re at a unique inflection point: after years of building and proving our system as a national servicer, we’re now scaling that software to power the broader industry
• There’s massive inbound interest—and the bottleneck is execution. FDEs are how we close that gap
• You’ll operate at the intersection of AI, finance, and infrastructure—embedding with customers, shipping bespoke solutions, and influencing how our platform evolves