Forward Deployed Engineer

**The Better Money Company** Forward Deployed Engineer; $200K–$225K+ base + equity (6-year vest); New York City (On-site)

**About Company** The Better Money Company (TBMC) is building a stablecoin clearinghouse — the infrastructure layer that lets stablecoins move like money rather than a trading asset. The clearinghouse gives fintechs, neobanks, banks, and payments companies 1:1 at-par swaps across chains and issuers, with guaranteed settlement times, fixed fees, and a compliant source of funds. They already support 8 of the top 10 issuance platforms and move real money for customers today.

Backed by $10M from a16z Crypto, plus BoxGroup, Sunflower Capital, and leading fintech angels. Design partners include Ramp and Modern Treasury. Founded by Sam Broner (ex-a16z investor covering stablecoins, ex-Boston Fed, ex-Microsoft engineer), with early team from Visa crypto treasury ops and a16z.

A small, deliberately tight NYC team — they shipped money movement within six months of starting and optimize for autonomy, ownership, and pace over headcount.

**About the Role** The FDE lives at the boundary between TBMC and its customers — payments companies and FIs, often on aging, fragmented infrastructure. They come in earlier than a typical FDE: owning the full integration lifecycle, helping define the product surface area built with partners, and translating customer needs into roadmap input. This is an engineer willing to do sales — technical sales alone isn't enough.

**Responsibilities** - Own the full integration lifecycle with customers/partners — scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, go-live. - Be the connective tissue between customers and product; triage and scope needs into actionable roadmap input. - Design and build shared tooling, SDKs, and documentation that make integrating fast and painless. - Debug production issues across system boundaries — first responder when something breaks between TBMC and a partner. - Talk to users and build product hands-on, not just advise.

**Required Skills** A. 3+ years building and shipping integrations with payment systems, financial infrastructure, and/or banking partners. B. Has been on the other end of the API — knows what good and bad integration experiences feel like. C. Excellent communication — translates between engineering-speak and customer-speak without losing fidelity. D. Enough payments fluency to move fast through complex flows of funds.

**Bonus Skills** - Stablecoin / blockchain experience (preferred, not required). - Prior forward-deployed / solutions-engineering experience.

**Logistical Info** - Location: NYC, on-site 5 days/week. Customer-facing, so expect partner travel/on-site. Remote/WFH-first candidates aren't a fit. - Compensation: $200K–$225K+ base + equity on a 6-year vest (outsized equity for early hires). - Work authorization: Visa sponsorship is fine. For sponsored candidates, flag the candidate's exact current visa status and the filing timelines they're expecting, so the team can plan. - Benefits/Other: Medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, periodic off-sites.

**Ideal Background** - Strongest signal — FDE / solutions / integration engineers from fintech or payments infra (Stripe, Plaid, Modern Treasury, Brex, Ramp, Adyen, Marqeta). - Also strong — product-minded engineers from fintech startups who've owned customer integrations end to end. - This is an engineer who does sales, not a salesperson who codes — technical depth is the bar.

**Green Flags** - Genuinely strong engineer who's also energized by customer-facing work. - High urgency, ownership, and homework on TBMC. - Comfortable owning ambiguity across system boundaries.

**Red Flags** - Technical-sales profile with weak engineering depth. - Can't go deep on flows of funds; intimidated by complex integrations. - Remote-first as a non-negotiable; multiple very short stints.

**Interview Process** 1. Technical resume + culture-fit screen (~20 min), run in parallel. 2. Take-home. 3. Paid on-site work trial (2 days): Meeting with the team, paired programming and solo programming, shareback session the next day.