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Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-timeRemoteMultiple openingsReports to: Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Set up our agents in each client’s business, fix what breaks, and turn what you learn into product.

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About SpareBrains

SpareBrains helps small and medium-sized businesses run better. A team of people and AI agents does real work for them. It finds where they’re losing customers online, fixes it, and keeps it running week after week. Our agents work inside our clients’ own accounts and tools, always with the owner’s approval. That makes trust the heart of what we sell.

The role

You’ll be where SpareBrains meets the businesses we serve. You’ll work with owners and our client team to set up our agents in each business’s own accounts and tools. You’ll fix what breaks, close gaps by hand when needed, and turn each fix into something the next client can reuse. Our client team owns the relationship and the plan. You own the technical side, end to end.

What you’ll do

Set up each client

  • Get access to a client’s accounts the right way, with named logins and the least access needed.
  • Set up and tune our agents for each business: its listings, phone setup, reviews and booking links.
  • Build the integrations each client needs: phone and SMS services, booking systems, review sites and listings.

Own the outcome

  • Judge success by the business’s results: calls answered, bookings made, reviews replied to.
  • Debug live problems quickly, and explain them to owners in plain words.
  • Work out what each client needs, and write it down clearly before you build.

Make the next one faster

  • Turn each setup into reusable parts, playbooks and internal tools.
  • Decide with the team what becomes core product, and bring field lessons back to it.
  • Work with our AI engineers on the evals and guardrails real clients need.

Example projects

  • Moving a hotel’s booking button to its own booking engine, and checking that the rates match.
  • Setting up a missed-call text from a plumber’s own number, without breaking their answering service.
  • Turning a restaurant’s setup into a playbook the next restaurant can reuse.

What you’ll bring

  • 3+ years writing production code, ideally with some of it in front of customers.
  • Strong Python and TypeScript, and solid experience with APIs, webhooks and integrations.
  • Hands-on work with AI systems: agents, evals, monitoring or retrieval.
  • Calm under pressure when something breaks for a client.
  • Plain, kind communication with business owners who aren’t technical.
  • Comfort working remotely, with some trips to clients in and around Atlanta.

You don’t need every item on this list. If the work excites you, apply anyway.

Nice to have

  • Experience as a forward deployed, solutions or founding engineer, or as a technical founder.
  • Local business tools: Google Business Profile, Local Services Ads, phone systems, booking engines or point-of-sale systems.
  • Telephony and SMS, including business texting registration (A2P 10DLC).
  • A second language, such as Spanish.

What we offer

A competitive base salary, equity, and the chance to build SpareBrains from its first day.

How to apply

Send your name, your email and your resume, with links to your work if you like. No cover letter needed.

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Interview process

  1. Intro call. 30 minutes with our founder on the role, your work and your questions.
  2. Role interview. A deeper conversation about how you’d do the job, and the work you’ve done.
  3. Working session. We work through a real problem together, with any tools you like, AI included.
  4. References and offer. We speak to people you’ve worked with, then send the offer in writing.