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Onboarded

Forward Deployed HR Engineer

Onboarded

. Embed with two or three strategic customer accounts at a time .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in integrating systems and building compliance workflows using modern programming languages such as TypeScript and Python. Proficient in utilizing APIs, webhooks, and AI tools to enhance customer implementations and streamline operations.

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Production Code WritingAPI IntegrationData Model ManagementCustomer DiscoveryAI Tools Utilization

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Hard Skills
TypeScriptPythonProduction-Quality CodingAPIWebhookData ModelRecord SynchronizationCompliance Workflow DevelopmentDebugging Payroll SynchronizationsCustomer-Facing Solutions
Soft Skills
Product JudgmentQuick Adaptability
Tools & Technologies
ATSHRISPayroll SystemsMCP Surfaces
Industry Keywords
Employment ComplianceStaffingCustomer AccountsWorkflow Automation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Embed with two or three strategic customer accounts at a time
  • Work with customer HR, operations, legal, and IT teams to map hiring workflows across systems, states, and worker types
  • Build customer compliance workflows as code using forms, policies, entities, automations, and integrations
  • Version, review, and deploy workflows across customer entities
  • Integrate Onboarded with ATS, HRIS, payroll, and screening vendors using REST APIs, webhooks, and MCP surfaces
  • Own data models, authentication, and record synchronization
  • Take workflows from discovery through production go-live
  • Monitor workflows, fix issues, and support auditability
  • Generalize customer implementations into reusable packages and team tooling, including AI agents that write configuration
  • Write product specifications for platform gaps, prioritize improvements, and test new releases

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3+ years writing production code in a modern stack such as TypeScript, Python, or similar, or a track record shipping real systems as a founder
  • Ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase
  • Experience with APIs, webhooks, authentication, data models, and synchronizing records across systems
  • Experience integrating systems at scale
  • Ability to conduct customer discovery with HR, operations, legal, and IT stakeholders
  • Ability to debug payroll synchronizations and deliver customer-facing solutions
  • Ability to use AI tools to write code, generate configuration, analyze requirements, and prototype; AI-first approach is non-negotiable
  • Product judgment to translate customer needs into implementations or clearly decline requests
  • Production-quality coding ability
  • Experience in staffing, ATS or HRIS software, payroll, or employment compliance is a strong signal but not required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing startup
  • Health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits
  • Remote-first culture with optional in-person collaboration
  • Opportunity to build workflows for some of the largest employers and staffing firms in the country
  • Clear growth path into leading a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, core platform engineering, or owning a product area