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Forward-Deployed Engineer

About TenderStria

TenderStria is building the AI that reads public-sector tenders so teams don't have to. Every working day, governments across 50+ countries publish thousands of contract notices, far more than any bid team can read. We ingest them all, translate and normalise them, and score each one for fit against a company's services, sectors and bid criteria, so teams open only the contracts genuinely worth pursuing. We're an early, deliberately small team building toward our first customers, with a product that already works.

About the role

Scoring a tender well is easy in a demo and hard in the real world, where every customer has their own sectors, capabilities, jargon and bid criteria. You'll work directly with customers to close that gap, configuring, tuning, and sometimes building, so that TenderStria works for their business, not just in theory.

Part engineer, part problem-solver, you'll be the technical person customers trust, and the channel through which their reality flows back into the product. What you learn in the field becomes features the whole base benefits from.

What you’ll do

  • ·Onboard new customers and tune scoring and matching to their sectors and criteria
  • ·Build the integrations and small tools that make TenderStria fit a customer's real workflow
  • ·Diagnose why a score or match is wrong for a specific customer, and fix it
  • ·Turn recurring field problems into durable product improvements with the core team
  • ·Be the technical voice in customer conversations, from onboarding to expansion
  • ·Write the internal tooling that makes the next onboarding faster than the last

What we look for

  • ·6+ years building production software, full-stack or backend-leaning
  • ·Comfortable in front of customers, translating between their problems and code
  • ·Pragmatic: you ship the thing that solves the problem, not the perfect abstraction
  • ·Strong general-purpose engineering across a modern application stack
  • ·Able to work independently across the stack with little hand-holding

Bonus points

  • ·Experience in forward-deployed, solutions, or implementation engineering
  • ·Worked on AI-powered or data-heavy products
  • ·Exposure to public-sector or procurement workflows

Why this role?

You'll be closer to customers than almost anyone in the company, and your fixes will show up in the product within days, not quarters. If you like solving real problems for real people and seeing the impact immediately, this is the seat with the most direct line from problem to shipped solution.

Why TenderStria?

Public procurement is a vast market that still runs on tools barely better than email alerts. We think the team that makes it genuinely searchable and scoreable will define the category. You'd join early enough to shape the product, the culture, and the playbook, with the ownership that only an early team offers and the focus of a company that has chosen its problem deliberately.