Forward Deployed Engineer (Junior Software Engineer)
Lantern
Software Engineering
Posted on Jan 10, 2025
Forward Deployed Engineer (Junior Software Engineer)
Location: In-person, NYC
About Lantern: Lantern’s Data + AI platform helps revenue teams accelerate pipeline creation. Our workflows automate manual tasks and make external data truly actionable. Our most popular workflow, Champion Chaser, automates tracking of job changes and has helped revenue teams grow pipeline by 9% and increase win rates by 26%. We recently raised our Series A, marking an exciting phase of growth and expansion.
Role Overview: As a forward deployed engineer at Lantern, you will play a critical role in ensuring our customers are delighted with our product and are achieving their desired outcomes. You will be responsible for understanding what customers want to achieve, and turning that into a reality by building out workflows for them in the Lantern product. This is a phenomenal role for someone who is looking to get their foot in the door to software engineering at a fast-growth startup.
Key Responsibilities:
Customer curiosity: Deeply understand what our customers are trying to achieve.
Customer activation: Building out and testing customer workflows in the Lantern product to turn customer’s goals into reality.
Problem solving: Coming up with solutions to issues that arise as customers are using the platform.
Value engineering: Find ways to deepen the value customers are receiving from the Lantern product.
Identify and build features that would enable us to improve the product
Metrics of Success:
Customer activation timelines
How much value customers are getting out of the product
Must haves:
Undergraduate or masters degree in computer science.
Experience working in SQL and Python.
Collaborative and solution-oriented mindset.
Strong work ethic and drive.
High attention to detail.
A consultative mindset with the curiosity to deeply understand customer needs and the creativity to solve them.
Nice to haves:
1+ years experience in software engineering
Experience using Salesforce and/or HubSpot.
Why this role?
Foot in the door to software engineer: This is a phenomenal role for someone who is looking to get their foot in the door to software engineering at a fast-growth startup. We are open to candidates for whom this would be their first full time job.
Collaboration: Work closely with a small team
Timing: Join a company at an exciting stage of growth with recently secured Series A funding.
How to Apply: Please send your resume and why you’re excited about this opportunity to jobs@withlantern.com.
Lantern is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.