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Forward Deployed Engineer

Guac· Engineering
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New York, NY$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Guac is solving grocery waste with AI-powered forecasting and replenishment. This role is the technical bridge between Guac products and grocery retailers, owning end-to-end deployments, data pipelines, and product integrations across store networks.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate directly with customers' technical teams to understand their IT infrastructure and integrate with their internal data systems
  • Work with customers' supply chain and store operations teams to translate their unique business logic into code
  • Own the end-to-end success of customer deployments, from kickoff through scaling across hundreds of stores
  • Be the technical face of Guac on the ground — building trust, debugging live, and turning customer feedback into product
  • Design and build ETL pipelines that process billions of rows of data multiple times per day across customers, using Python, Dagster, and Pub/Sub
  • Build and extend backend services (Python/FastAPI) that power our ordering and production planning products
  • Extend our recommendation engine to meet the business needs of each new customer
  • Expose our data and systems to LLMs via MCP servers, tool-use APIs, and similar protocols

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Proven experience designing and implementing ETL systems across large distributed datasets (Dagster, Airflow, or similar)
  • Excellent communication skills and a commercial mindset — you've worked directly with customers and can hold your own in a room with both engineers and supply chain VPs
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process — you thrive when given a problem and trusted to figure out the solution
  • AI-native: you use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI coding tools daily and ship significantly faster because of it

Skills

Required:PythonSQLETL design/implementationDagsterCommunication with customers

Benefits

  • First-hand experience building an early-stage startup with real product ownership
  • Fully employer-paid healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Fully covered food expenses in the office (lunch/dinner)
  • Free Equinox membership
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AI-powered demand forecasting for grocery

Guac accurately forecasts demand for grocery retailers, to reduce food waste and increase availability.

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