Software Engineer

The Role

This is a true 0→1 product engineering role. You'll take real customer problems and well-scoped requirements, turn them into product improvements, and ship them end-to-end—from implementation and testing through rollout and production follow-through.

You'll build across the stack on AI agent workflows, customer-facing experiences, and integrations with messy legacy ERPs and CRMs. The work includes rapid prototyping with LLMs, debugging complex data flows, and building flexible systems that handle real-world edge cases reliably.

You'll work closely with customers and teammates, contribute to technical decisions and code reviews, and steadily take ownership of more complex parts of the product. Our stack is TypeScript end-to-end with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

What you’ll do

• Build and ship focused product improvements across the frontend and backend
• Understand requirements, connect implementation choices to customer value, and own work through release and production operation
• Write clear, maintainable code that follows existing patterns and solves the immediate problem without unnecessary complexity
• Test important behavior, use logs and metrics to investigate failures, and fix root causes rather than symptoms
• Debug and improve agent workflows, product experiences, integrations, APIs, data flows, and background jobs
• Participate thoughtfully in code reviews, incorporate feedback, and grow ownership of increasingly complex product areas

Who you are

• You have 2+ years of experience as a product software engineer and a track record of shipping working software
• You can translate scoped requirements into reliable product code and are comfortable working across the stack
• You care about code quality and simplicity, follow existing patterns, and avoid abstractions that do not serve the immediate problem
• You test your work, debug systematically, and follow through when production behavior differs from expectations
• You have a product mindset: you learn how customers work, connect technical decisions to user value, and notice opportunities to improve the experience
• You communicate clearly, collaborate well, give and receive useful feedback, and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
• You are ambitious, resourceful, action-oriented, and team-first; you care about strengthening American manufacturing and are excited to work in person five days a week in NYC

Bonus points

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, or PostgreSQL
• Experience with distributed systems, queues, caching, retries, consistency, or observability
• Experience building third-party API integrations or working with legacy systems
• Practical experience with LLM APIs, agent workflows, prompting, or evaluations
• Experience building software for manufacturing or another operationally complex industry

About Forgepoint

Revitalize an industry. Rebuild America's manufacturing backbone.

America builds satellites, jet engines, semiconductors, and more with world-class precision, but the software running factory offices is decades behind. Estimators, procurement teams, and engineers still lose hours to spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual data entry.

Forgepoint builds AI workers for non-production departments — think inside sales, quoting, and procurement. By removing back-office bottlenecks, we help US manufacturers move faster, grow, and compete globally.

We're backed by a16z speedrun and angels from Brex, Xwing, and Betterment. Join us in rebuilding the digital foundation of American manufacturing.

Our Founders

Jack Strauss — Co-Founder & CEO

Jack began his career at Acer and Northrop Grumman, then advised industrial companies at Bain. At Xwing, he helped scale the company and led GTM through its acquisition by Joby Aviation. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from USC.

Alex Pareto — Co-Founder & CTO

Alex began at Meta, then founded YC-backed Demeanor which was acquired by NTWRK. He later became a founding engineer on Brex Spend Management, and ultimately the Head of Engineering for that organization. He holds a BS in Computer Science from USC.

How we work

• In person every day in NYC for high-bandwidth collaboration
• Talk to users constantly—we build with manufacturers, not for them
• Own outcomes end-to-end and drive solutions without waiting for permission

Our Values

• We're Here to Win: We are building to help American manufacturers, our customers, our company, and our teammates win at the highest level.
• There's Always a Way: We are relentlessly resourceful, take ownership of constraints, and find a path forward when others stop.
• Truth Over Comfort: We choose honesty over ego, surface reality quickly, and change course when the facts demand it.
• Act Now: We move fast, trust our instincts, and correct course as we go.
• Step Up: We act like founders, fill gaps, fix problems, and follow through until the work is done.
• The Team. The Team. The Team.: We put the team first, push and support each other, share wins, and own failures together.

Comp & Benefits

• Top-tier salary and equity
• Great healthcare
• Dinner at the office
• Unlimited Celsius

Location

Onsite in New York City, five days a week.