Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
GRVT
Other Engineering
China
Posted on Jan 23, 2026
What You’ll Do:
- Build the Integration Surface (Primary Engineering Ownership)
- Design, build, and maintain GRVT’s SDKs, integration libraries, and developer tooling.
- Build and evolve builder-facing APIs and the “builder program” integration surface.
- Create reference implementations, example apps, and templates that accelerate customer time-to-production.
- Directly contribute to core trading codebase for deeper integration needs.
- Ship improvements across whichever codebase creates the most leverage:
- Customer codebases (when necessary to unblock or accelerate adoption)
- Open-source repos (SDKs/tools/examples)
- GRVT core platform (when platform changes are the durable fix)
- Drive Customer Integrations and Outcomes (Revenue-Goaled)
- Work directly with:
- Market makers: help them size up requirements, reliability expectations, and integration paths to quote/trade effectively.
- Platform integrators: attract more builders, and help them increase the flow they send to GRVT by removing friction and expanding capability.
- API traders: help them trade more by improving integration quality, reliability, and ergonomics.
- Own end-to-end integration success: debugging, performance tuning, reliability hardening, and production readiness.
- Partner closely with Sales/BD on technical enablement, integration planning, and removing blockers to adoption.
- Ongoing Customer Care & API Support
- Own end-to-end resolution of API and SDK integration issues for customers, including debugging real-world usage, edge cases, and production incidents.
- Support a high volume of integrator requests, working directly in customer environments when needed to diagnose and unblock issues.
- Identify recurring patterns across customer issues and convert them into durable technical leverage (SDK improvements, safer defaults, tooling, automation, or documentation).
- Partner with core engineering teams to drive platform-level fixes when customer issues reveal deeper system problems.
- Continuously reduce the volume and severity of support needs by eliminating classes of issues, not just closing tickets.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: ability to design and ship production-quality systems and libraries.
- Customer-facing technical ownership: you can work directly with external teams, ask sharp questions, and drive to a working outcome.
- Ambiguity mastery: you can take unclear requirements and convert them into clear technical plans, trade-offs, and execution.
- Outcome ownership: you optimize for customer success and business impact, not just task completion.
- Reliability mindset: you do not trade correctness for speed unless the trade-off is explicit and safe.
- Excellent communication (two-way): you listen, clarify, align, and move decisions forward across technical and non-technical audiences.
- High agency: you are self-directed, unblock yourself, and consistently find the highest-leverage work.
- Experience building and maintaining SDKs, API tooling, developer platforms, or integration frameworks.
- Experience driving Sales/BD directly through a technical lens.
- Familiarity with trading systems, exchanges, market makers, or latency/reliability-sensitive APIs.
- Proven habit of turning repeated customer issues into durable product/platform improvements.
- Strong AI-assisted engineering workflow (debugging, prototyping, docs/examples generation, integration automation) that improves speed and quality.