Full-Stack / Forward-Deployed Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026.
Our client is a fast-growing, well-funded startup building the AI-native ERP for modern finance teams. Every business needs a financial system of record, yet the world’s largest fintech market ($220B+) still runs largely on software from the 1990s. Their platform automates accounting from data entry all the way to close, so finance teams move faster, spend less and take on less risk.
In just two years they’ve raised $100M+ from top-tier venture capital and growth investors, and work with customers ranging from $5M ARR startups to publicly traded companies.
They hire outliers: people who have achieved difficult things, in their careers or beyond. The team includes former competitive athletes at the highest level of their sport, Broadway performers, people who trained with UFC champions, and the founder of one of the country’s largest Python communities.
This is a confidential search. The company name will be shared with shortlisted candidates ahead of interview.
Responsibilities
This is a hands-on, ship-things role.
Embed on named customer projects and own them end to end: discovery, design, build, deploy and verify.
Build migration and integration pipelines on Temporal that are idempotent, resumable and auditable.
Model and load customer accounting data into Postgres correctly, including reconciling it against the customer’s existing system.
Build internal tooling so recurring one-offs stop being one-offs.
Feed patterns back into the core product, and productize or hand off anything that becomes permanent.
Shorten the path from “customer requested” to “shipped”.
Requirements
Hardcore work ethic and high agency.
5+ years shipping production full-stack software, end to end and unsupervised.
Django and Django REST Framework.
PostgreSQL beyond ORM defaults: you read query plans and have run migrations against live data with customers on it.
Next.js and React with TypeScript.
Durable workflow experience: Temporal preferred, Celery is fine.
Direct customer exposure: you’ve sat with a customer, scoped the problem with them and shipped against it.
Experience with third-party APIs, webhooks, rate limits and reconciling two systems that disagree.
Strong spoken and written English.
Nice to have:
Accounting, ERP or fintech knowledge: double-entry, chart of accounts, close, AP/AR, revenue recognition.
Prior forward-deployed, applied or special-projects experience.
Judgment about when to ship a script versus build a system.
Benefits
Join early in one of the fastest-growing AI companies in finance and grow with it.
Your feedback shapes the product directly.
A high-speed, high-trust environment with high expectations.
Remote-first team.
27 days of PTO including public holidays.
Home internet, co-working space and office setup support.
Unlimited AI token usage.
AI skills development and enablement.
Learning and development budget for courses, certifications and language learning.
In-person team meetups.