Software engineer, Forward Deployed

We are looking for an early fullstack engineer to join our nimble team and build the product alongside the founders in SF. This person will be an extension of us, the founders, and have the same voice at the table. We think of early engineers as having the ethos of being a founder themselves.

This role has a twist. Most of your time is spent building—shipping features, prototypes and full products in our codebase. But a meaningful slice of it, roughly a week or two a month, is spent forward deployed: embedded with a customer's engineering team, getting our products working inside their environment and watching real engineers use what you built.

Our customers run monorepos with thousands of engineers, custom CI, decade-old build systems and merge processes nobody fully understands. Making Aviator work there isn't a config file—it's engineering. And it's the fastest feedback loop we have. The point of the split isn't to hand you two jobs; it's that the same person who sees the problem in the field gets to fix it in the product on Monday.

An ideal candidate has a unique mix of software expertise, system design, and proficiency in HCI—plus the willingness to sit in a customer's office and debug their build system.