Forward-Deployed Engineer, Binti
$200-300k
Offers Equity
2 days a week in office
SaaS solutions for child welfare agencies
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SaaS solutions for child welfare agencies
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-300k
Offers Equity
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Binti’s mission is to reinvent child welfare through software with the goal of helping every child to have a family.
Role
Who you are
- Strong candidates combine deep engineering experience with excellent communication skills, a service mindset, and the ability to thrive in dynamic, ambiguous environments
- You have at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in a customer-facing role like integrations engineer, consultant, or similar
- You have a strong startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, balancing risks, and building MVPs that are iterated upon
- You’re familiar with legacy systems (even better in the government context) and the difficulties and tradeoffs that come with working with them
- You have the ability to architect, build, and maintain distributed integrated systems
- You’re comfortable with APIs, data pipelines (ETL), enterprise data warehouses (EDW), and all their friends
- You have the experience and ability to effectively project manage your own work and your own time
- You excel at collaboration with cross-functional partners in product, program management, sales, and more
Desirable
- You’re energized by working with customers to solve real-world problems, not just closing out engineering tickets
- You have the ability to visualize how a big software system like ours works, but also think about how it interacts at the edges with our customers’ software systems
- You have a history of not only shipping code and products, but also making customers happy
- You have excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- You’re experienced and confident with Ruby/Ruby on Rails, but also comfortable in other programming languages like Python, C#, Java, etc
- You’re a quick learner who is motivated by up-leveling their skills and taking on new challenges
- You’re interested in the boundless possibilities of Gen AI interest, with experience and judgement in that area being a big plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for technically sharp, customer-focused engineers who are excited to work directly with our partners to design and deliver integrations that unlock the full value of the Binti platform
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer and part of the Integrations Engineering team, you’ll take ownership of high-impact, externally-facing technical projects — from on-site discovery and architecture sessions to live co-development and ongoing support
- A big part of this position will be directly supporting our customers in their integration journey, and thus this job is up to 50% travel. Opportunities to go on-site with our customers will include design and discovery sessions, co-development work, and technical onboarding
- Participate in discovery and architecture sessions with customers to ensure that integrations are designed to support our customers needs, best leverage the Binti platform, and be performant, secure, and scalable
- Lead co-development sessions with our customers’ development teams, working side-by-side with them in person or virtually, to provide them live support and consulting as they integrate with the Binti platform and APIs
- Develop relationships with our customers’ technical teams with the goal of becoming a trusted partner who they can lean on for support and assistance
- Provide integration technical support to our customers, answering questions, providing consultative advice, and helping them debug their integrations
- Collaborate with the rest of the Binti Integrations Team to develop improvements and bug fixes for the Binti RESTful APIs, connectors, and integration tools
- Assist other teams at Binti, like Program Management, Customer Support, and Sales, by answering questions about our integration capabilities and our projects with customers, and by keeping them apprised of how our customers are using our products and when and where they need help
- Synthesize and deliver product feedback in order to allow us to use it to improve Binti’s modules and integration capabilities
- Champion security and privacy, including looking for ways to make it easier to safeguard HIPAA compliance for sensitive data and incorporate security best practices
- Meet on-site with a new customer to understand how Binti will fit into their workflow and information architecture, and then use that knowledge to design an integration using Binti’s APIs or connectors that meets their needs
- Pair closely with our Program Management Office (PMO) team to launch our biggest statewide enterprise customers
- Collaborate side-by-side, virtually or in-person, with a customer who is integrating with Binti, providing them live support during co-development
- Work with the other members of the Integration Engineering Team to develop new API endpoints, connectors, or other integration tools
- Respond to questions and support requests from customers with existing integrations to debug, triage, and fix issues that are discovered post-launch
Our take
In the US there are almost half a million children in foster care, and around a quarter of those are still waiting to be adopted. Connecting children with the right families, all of whom need to be thoroughly checked before approval, is a long and labor-heavy process involving huge volumes of paperwork.
Binti is aiming to reinvent child welfare by partnering with county and state governments and private social work firms. The company provides them with modern software to speed up and increase approval volumes while still maintaining high standards.
The company has grown quickly since launching in 2017 and struck partnerships with the likes of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, & NYC Children’s Services. The company is showing no signs of slowing down, having concluded a major fundraise to expand further across the US in 2021.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2026
$6m
LATE VC
Aug 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Total funding: $51m
Company benefits
- An above-market compensation package (salary + equity)
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance - 99% of insurance premiums covered for you + your dependents
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend, targeting 20 days/year
- 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant
- 13 paid holidays; 11 Federally observed holidays (including Juneteenth), plus the day after Thanksgiving and Election Day
- Sick/Mental Health time separate from vacation days (72 hours)
- 4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service at the company
- 401(k) with 100% match of contributions up to 4% of your annual salary
- Commuter benefits, FSA, and DCSA with administration paid for
- $5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA (court-appointed special advocates)
- $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development, with opportunities to attend trainings/conferences, on-site speaker series, and lunch and learns
- $1,000 reimbursement for virtual home office setup
- $100/month remote work stipend to cover internet, electricity, or home office setup costs, or $250/month for a co-working space
- Weekly reimbursement for lunch with coworkers - virtually or at our Oakland office
- Paid Jury Duty
- Remote work friendly
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Felicia Curcuru
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Engagement Manager at McKinsey. Also served as Director of Business Development and VP User Experience at online venture capital platform, FundersClub.
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