A World-Changing Company

Meticulous is radically accelerating the pace of software development. We've built the world's first fully autonomous and exhaustive testing platform for frontend codebases - a capability that has never existed before and that we believe is the missing piece in unlocking the full potential of code generation.

The demand has been immense. Companies like Dropbox, Wiz, and Notion often pay more for Meticulous than any other software product in their stack, and spontaneously refer us to others. Our team of eleven has achieved this by bringing together some of the most talented engineers from Uber, Google, Dropbox, GitHub, Meta, and Palantir.

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The Role

The First Forward Deployed Engineer

As Meticulous's first Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll pioneer this function and shape how the world's leading engineering organizations develop software.

You'll work directly with engineering leaders at companies like Notion, Dropbox, Wealthsimple, Outtake, and LaunchDarkly, understanding their unique architectures and crafting solutions that work for their specific needs. This role demands an unusual combination of deep technical expertise and entrepreneurial drive, you'll be writing high-performance code one day and presenting architectural decisions to VPs of Engineering the next.

Core Responsibilities

This spans both customer success and coding. You own each customer end-to-end - and do what’s needed to make sure Meticulous is transformational for them. This involves everything from changes to core product to owning the customer relationship:

• Architect and deploy at scale: Work with organizations like Dropbox or Notion to understand their full architecture, design implementation strategies that fit their systems, and pair with their engineers to deliver them.

• Evolve the core product to make the customer successful: This can range from debugging and fixing issues that are blocking the rollout (which often go deep into the core technology, such as the deterministic browser), to shipping features that will be transformative for the customer you’re focused on, but also move the product forward itself e.g. rework parts of Meticulous to work at a new level of scale required by the customer.

• Own the customer relationships: Build and own the relationships with the engineering leaders, make sure the roll-out is set up for success, gather and iterate on feedback.

• Guide the direction of the product based on what you learn in the field: As you see how the product performs, and how engineers workflows are rapidly evolving, work out what do we need to build to unlock the next level of automating software development? Where there are improvements which make sense to own and ship, ship them; where the work is larger and needs deeper scoping pair with core engineering team to make them happen.

• Build the playbook: As our first FDE, you'll establish processes, tooling, and best practices that ensure each deployment is smoother and faster than the last, creating leverage for the FDE team as it grows.

What We're Looking For

• Exceptional engineering skills. You have 3+ years of experience working a technical role.

• High drive, autonomy and bias for action: You thrive with minimal supervision, make decisions quickly, and take ownership of outcomes - this role demands entrepreneurial self-drive

• Strong communication skills: You can explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and executives, and you're energized by customer collaboration

• Willingness to travel: Approximately 25% travel to customer sites. For US-based candidates, you'll spend time training with the core engineering team in London.

What You'll Gain

Shape a new function

As the first FDE, you'll define how this role evolves and grow into leadership as the team expands.

Exceptional growth

You grow through a combination of the people you work with, and the experiences you’re exposed to. Within that context:

• Our philosophy is that density of talent is what matters; and so we’ve focused on keeping the team small but with exceptional individuals. You’ll get to collaborate with world-class engineers who previously led 100+ person organizations at top companies, and we expect you’ll find the team is beyond any you’ve worked in before, within big tech (Google, Meta, etc.) or otherwise. This, combined with a focus on learning and growing together, means we’re able to learn from each other at rapid pace.

• Beyond growing your skills through engineering and collaboration, the role involves spending a lot of time with engineering leaders at the fastest growing tech companies and leading firms in the world. We’ve found this gives us a unique exposure to a huge range of technologies, practices, techniques, codebases, architectures, cultures, learnings - what works, what doesn’t. It’s a valuable bird eye view of collective learnings and experiences. These learnings normally take years or decades to build up as you move between companies.

There are few startups that grow as fast as we do. You’ll be joining a small team on an exceptional trajectory. Through this comes unique growth, but also unique network:

Expand your network

Our investors include Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (Segment), Jared Friedman (YC/Scribd), Scott Belsky (Adobe), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox) - we can connect you with anyone in tech in the course to expanding the business. You’ll work with engineering leaders across many leading tech companies, often at the highest levels.

Given the speed of growth, and desirability of the product amongst the leading enterprises, Meticulous provides the opportunity to build a network of connections across the full span of the technology world.

Solve novel problems

Work on challenges at the intersection of browser technology, testing infrastructure, and large-scale system design that few engineers ever encounter - to help build something that changes the way software is developed.

World-class compensation

Base salary $200K-$400K plus significant equity, exceeding compensation at top technology companies and startups.

Life at Meticulous

We believe autonomous testing will enable the automation of the majority of software development. You'll be at the forefront of this transformation, working with the companies that will be first to realize this future.

This role is on-site because we've found that the speed of iteration and depth of collaboration required for both customer success and technical excellence happens best in person.