Forward Deployed Engineer

About Spott

Spott is a YC-backed AI startup with its office in Leuven, Belgium. We are on a mission to transform the recruitment industry. Together, we're building the first AI-native recruitment platform (ATS & CRM) that empowers agency recruiters to close more placements and help everyone find the right job more easily.

Why?

Recruitment is a $700B+ industry still running on outdated methods. The biggest players are slow to innovate. Spott isn't a tool that will be added to legacy software, it is a full reset. We are the core operating software. AI-native, fast, scalable, and personal.

✔️ You have a Master's degree in IT/Computer Science/Software Engineering and preferably at least 2 years of experience in backend development

✔️ You want to be in front of customers. You can sit with the leadership team of a recruitment agency, understand how they actually work, and translate that into something we can build

✔️ Passion for solving complex technical challenges and designing scalable software.

✔️ Experience building AI driven applications (prompt engineering and/or fine tuning is a plus)

✔️ You are comfortable with ambiguity and happy to travel occasionally to customer sites

What You’ll Do

✔️ Embed with our largest customers, learn their workflows in detail, and build what they need straight into the product

✔️ Backend development on our recruitment platform, mainly TypeScript and Node.js

✔️ Build integrations, data migrations and customer specific solutions, then turn the recurring ones into core product

✔️ Act as the technical bridge between our biggest accounts and our product and engineering teams

✔️ Set the technical direction for the parts of the backend you own, lead design discussions and review code to keep quality high as the team scales

✔️ Work in a supportive, open and fast moving environment where you learn and grow quickly

What We Offer

✔️ Highly competitive salary and a meaningful stock option package

✔️ An exciting opportunity to work with the latest technologies and AI models on challenging problems, from a technical and a business logic perspective

✔️ A role with significant responsibility, full ownership of critical systems, and tangible impact on product and company direction, within a highly ambitious team

✔️ Great team vibe with regular dinners, sports activities and international offsites

About the interview process

1. Application review. We review your application and you hear back from us within 48 hours
2. Screening call (30 min). We want to learn about your motivations to join Spott, determine why you'd be a great fit, and answer any questions you may have for us
3. Technical screen (60 min). We walk through a real customer problem we are facing at Spott to learn more about how you approach architecture, tradeoffs and decision making

Overall, if joining an “San Francisco/YC company in Belgium” sounds appealing to you, then you should apply - even if you don't match all criteria