Forward Deployed Engineer

Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 180+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.

Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable retail brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, Polymarket, and more.

We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more!

Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!

Who You Are:

• 2-4 years of experience building and shipping production software, full-stack or backend-leaning.

• Comfort across a modern web stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js). Python is a plus, especially for AI work.

• AI-native: you build with AI by default (LLM APIs, agentic workflows, AI coding tools) and are comfortable shipping AI-powered features.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a builder's instinct, with a keen attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineers, founders, and non-technical stakeholders alike.

• Comfort working directly with clients, and an eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-moving environment.

• Some exposure to fintech or financial products, or a genuine interest in the domain, with an awareness of why security and compliance matter when handling financial data.

What You’ll Do:

• Embed with client teams to understand their users and their challenges, then build and extend their product to meet real needs.

• Develop custom solutions and integrations that solve concrete client problems.

• Translate what you learn from users into clear, actionable feedback for the client's product and engineering teams.

• Build and maintain integrations with the services fintech products depend on: payment processors, banking partners, and financial data providers

• Build full-stack features that are increasingly AI-powered (LLM-driven workflows, agentic features, and the product around them), using AI across your own workflow to ship faster while keeping quality high.

• Support client teams with onboarding, documentation, and training on what you build, so it holds up after you roll off.

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with client teams, acting as a technical partner and advocate, not just a contractor.

Nice to Have:

The following would be a bonus experience to have, though highlight any additional experience or skills you may have. We like working with people with varied backgrounds and experiences.

• AI-powered features that map well to fintech: document extraction (for KYC or statements), transaction categorization, support chatbots, search, or data normalization.

• Creating MCP servers, or building deeper agentic tooling and testing infrastructure for agentic applications.

• Background in fintech, regulated financial services, or experience with RegTech and compliance automation tools.

• Experience with payment, banking, or financial data integrations.

• Relevant open-source contributions or technical publications.

AI in our hiring process
We use AI to help us review and shortlist applications based on job-related criteria. A human hiring manager always makes the call on who moves forward. As a company that builds with AI every day, we're all for candidates using it too — just be upfront about how it helped.

Why Work With Us

• 🚀 Accelerate Your Growth: Work across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects with a team that ships fast.

• 💥 Maximum Impact: Shape the future of the tech industry by helping ambitious projects reach their potential.

• 🏅 True Ownership: Everyone ships code and has real autonomy with minimal meetings.

• 💡 Continuous Learning: Be part of a team of senior engineers and designers who love learning and knowledge sharing.
  

Why This Might Not Be For You

• 🤖 You Resist Modern Tools: We leverage AI and cutting-edge technology to build rapidly and focus our energy on solving the most complex, high-impact challenges for our clients.

• 🏗️ You Crave High Structure: We thrive in an autonomous, fast-moving environment, which means you need to be comfortable with some ambiguity.

• 😴 You Prefer Conventional Careers: Our consulting approach involves varied projects and direct client interaction — it's not for everyone.

• 1️⃣ You Like Staying in One Lane: Our projects require adapting to different tech stacks and modern tooling quickly.

Benefits & Perks

• 🌐 Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace — all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!

• 🧘‍♂️ Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.

• 🩺 Employee Care: We provide full benefits (healthcare, dental, vision) for our employees (401k for our US employees)

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.

• 🎉 Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii — plus ones welcome.