Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Remote

Overview

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we’re on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence—streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions.

Our AI-powered data and analytics platform is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit—ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system.

Trusted by more than 400 customers—including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square—Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world’s most innovative lenders do business.

In Short

• Embed with customer teams to understand their workflows and pain points in the Mortgage, SMB and Consumer lending space
• Design and deliver technical solutions, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and integrations that solve real business problems.
• Write and ship production code across the stack (Python, Java, Go, TypeScript/React).
• Run proof-of-concepts and proof-of-value engagements that demonstrate ROI fast.
• Troubleshoot gnarly technical issues in live environments and get things back on track.
• Partner with the Account Management and Product teams to deliver value, and influence the roadmap.
• Travel occasionally (~30–50%) to customer sites and industry events

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, or technical consulting.
• Strong full-stack engineering chops, you can design, build, and ship scalable systems.
• Backend: Java, Python, Go, microservices, APIs, distributed systems.
• Frontend: React/TypeScript.
• Database skills (Postgres, MySQL, data modeling).
• Hands-on experience with cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, CI/CD.
• Comfortable talking to execs and engineers alike; you can translate between business and tech.
• Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you figure it out and get it done.

Benefits

• You’ll have ownership from day one, our FDEs lead projects end-to-end.
• You’ll work directly with customers and see the immediate impact of what you build.
• You’ll shape the product by bringing the voice of the customer straight to engineering.
• You’ll get the best of both worlds: building like an engineer + solving problems like a consultant.
• And most importantly, you’ll be part of a fast-moving team where your work actually matters.