Forward Deployed Engineer
Job Description
Quick Facts
Role: Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
Base salary: $200K to $325K
Equity: Aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
About Moment
Moment is building the operating system for investment management. The company’s platform brings trading, operations, and infrastructure workflows into one unified system for financial institutions.
Founded by former quants from Citadel Securities and Jane Street, Moment launched publicly in 2024 and now supports institutions managing more than $8T in assets.
Moment has raised $56M in funding from leading investors including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed. Its most recent $36M Series B was led by Index. You can read Bloomberg's coverage of it here and the memo Index wrote on why they invested.
About the Role
We’re looking for exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), hybrid builders, product thinkers, and GTM operators, to join our NYC team. FDEs at Moment work directly with our largest customers across every stage of the lifecycle: pre-sale solutioning, implementation, and post-sale growth.
Think of this role as an embedded “mini-cofounder” for our clients: deeply technical, relentlessly curious, and obsessed with helping customers win. You’ll be responsible for understanding client workflows, crafting custom demos and proof-of-concepts, driving launches, and identifying expansion opportunities, all while feeding insights back into our product roadmap.
This is an extremely cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and business development.
What You’ll Do
Lead technical discovery and solution design for new customers, including tailored demos and POCs.
Translate client needs into clear product requirements and integration plans.
Own the delivery and rollout of Moment’s products from implementation planning to on-site launch.
Partner with business development to drive adoption, usage, and expansion within existing accounts.
Build lightweight tools, prototypes, or internal scripts to accelerate customer deployments.
Create repeatable processes for demos, documentation, and onboarding.
Act as a product SME, helping customers and internal teams understand what’s possible with Moment.
Synthesize customer feedback into product insights and champion new product opportunities.
You’re a Good Fit If You’re:
Versatile: You can move fluidly between engineering, product, and GTM contexts.
Technical: You can read and write lightweight code, reason about APIs, and understand systems design.
Customer-obsessed: You love solving complex problems directly with clients.
Entrepreneurial: You thrive in ambiguity and operate with the ownership mindset of a founder.
Communicative: You can translate technical detail into simple, compelling narratives for executives and engineers alike.
Even Better If You Have
Prior experience in fintech, trading systems, or enterprise SaaS.
Experience in a customer-facing engineering, solutions, or technical product role.
Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, or modern API design.
Comfort presenting to senior stakeholders or leading on-site workshops.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage
$150 monthly gym stipend
Free lunch and dinner
Compensation
Base salary: $200K to $325K
Equity: Aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses