Hi! Were Forerunner.

We believe that climate adaptation is a necessity not a luxury and communities deserve access to powerful software that helps them plan for the future. The challenge of climate change is complex it implicates how municipalities plan manage capital and communicate to both residents and higher levels of government. Forerunner helps local communities do these things better by empowering them to access understand and mobilize locallevel flood risk data at scale.

About the role

As the first Forward Deployed Engineer at Forerunner youll pioneer this role while bridging the gap between our platform and client systems creating seamless integrations that help customers fully leverage our solutions. Beyond just integration work youll be establishing best practices and defining processes for this function within our ecosystem. Youll work directly with government agencies to understand their technical needs build custom integrations and automate data workflows. Your work will enable communities to better manage and understand a variety of different environmental risks such as fire and flood and your work will provide permitting and grant management support to facilitate mitigation and prevention within the built environment against climate change.

What youll do

Integration Development

• Design and implement robust API integrations between Forerunners platform and customer systems like permit management software (Accela Laserfiche Citizenserve)
• Translate customer requirements into technical specifications and solutions that align with Forerunners product roadmap
• Create reusable scalable integration frameworks that can be applied across multiple clients and systems
• Build and maintain monitoring systems to ensure integrations function reliably
• Develop and maintain automated tests for integration solutions to ensure reliability and stability

Data Management & Automation

• Develop scripts and processes to automate the import and export of critical data for Customer Success and GIS teams
• Design and implement data transformation pipelines to ensure consistency across systems
• Create innovative solutions for complex data migration challenges
• Build internal tools to improve efficiency for customerfacing teams

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Work closely with the Forerunner platform engineering team to integrate your solutions into the main application
• Collaborate with Product to understand Forerunners core functionality roadmap and future goals for customer integrations
• Partner with Customer Success Sales and GIS teams to deliver comprehensive solutions to clients
• Document integration requirements and processes for both internal and external stakeholders
• Support Sales and Customer Success with technical guidance during the sales and implementation process

Customer Technical Partnership

• Collaborate with customers to understand their technical infrastructure and data workflows
• Provide technical guidance to customers with varying levels of IT sophistication
• Establish best practices for customer technical onboarding and integration
• Help translate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders

What were looking for

Required Skills

• Experience with API design implementation and integration (REST services different authentication protocols)
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript programming skills
• Proficiency with Bash/shell scripting Git/GitHub and SQL (Postgres/MySQL)
• Experience automating common tasks with reusable scripts
• Ability to clearly document technical integrations and train users
• Strong communication skills with both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Patient customerfocused approach to problemsolving

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience with batch job processing technologies (Airflow AWS Batch)
• Familiarity with AWS Docker GraphQL Express SFTP Postman
• Background in geospatial technology (Mapbox ESRI products Leaflet)
• Experience migrating adhoc scripts into standardized scripts within a larger platform
• Exposure to architecture design for integration systems and batch job processing
• Background in government software or permit management systems
• Experience with test automation for integration solutions

Our team has a lot to offer.

Forerunner is an earlystage company with an interdisciplinary team. We are motivated by seemingly intractable problems and work hard to support one another.

Were missiondriven. Our mission orients our business strategy and pushes us to work with a sense of urgency. Were in the weeds our entire team spends time engaging with our partners in the field to better understand the realworld problems they face.

Were a small team. As a member of our growing team you will quickly become an invaluable part of our organization and have a meaningful impact on our business and technical direction. We welcome unique perspectives and backgrounds. Your opinion matters and we hope youll share it.

Were a remotefirst organization with offices in NYC San Francisco and Portland ME. Many members of our team work remotely but we have small offices in San Francisco NYC and Portland ME. We offer schedule flexibility for all of our employees and ask for accountability in return.

We want you to be happy and healthy. Forerunner offers competitive compensation health/vision/dental coverage and commuter benefits. We also have a quarterly wellness reimbursement so that you can have flexibility in defining what health means to you.

The salary range for this position is $150000$180000. This posting may span more than one career level. Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors including an individuals skills experience qualifications and working location.