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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at collectwise.com'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at collectwise.com

- **Company:** collectwise.com
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/collectwise-com/am9icG9zdDqBMGxo1MScbeSDENgWL4Yu

## Job description

## About Us

CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re doing so at a fraction of the cost.

With a team of three, we scaled to a $1 million annualized run rate in just a few months, and we are now hiring a forward deployed engineer to help us reach $10 million within the next year.

## Role

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer implementations end-to-end. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering and operations, building the integrations and technical systems that bring clients into production.

This role blends software engineering with hands-on customer work. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy ambiguity, love shipping quickly, and can translate business requirements into robust, testable systems. This is a highly visible, high-ownership role working closely with the founder and clients.

## Responsibilities

- Build and maintain custom integrations with client systems.
- Configure and productionize AI agents for each client (prompts, workflows, data transfers).
- Develop and implement client solutions using modern back-end frameworks.
- Translate vague customer requirements into clear technical specs and ship solutions quickly.
- Build internal tools to make implementations faster and more repeatable.

Desired Qualifications

- Experience with Node.js, React.js, AWS, SQL, and GPT-5 or other LLMs.
- Experience building products in a production environment (your own startup, working at an early-stage startup, or a meaningful project from scratch).
- Very strong communication skills and work ethic.
- Experience or interest in voice AI.
- Versatility across disciplines.

## Compensation

- Salary range: $150,000 to $190,000, based on relevant experience and qualifications.
- 0.25% to 1% equity compensation

## About collectwise.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CollectWise automates consumer debt collection with generative AI agents that handle the entire late-stage recovery process, from asset research to enforcement actions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sean O’Brien (CEO) and Vivek Isukapalli

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Debt Collection Technology (Fintech)
- **Target customers**: Collection agencies, debt buyers, collection law firms, and original creditors (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Automate the outdated, costly, and inefficient late-stage debt collection process, enabling creditors to recover 2× more debt at half the cost while maintaining compliance and brand reputation.

## Products & Services
- **[CollectWise AI Platform]**: A SaaS platform that uses autonomous generative AI agents to automate pre-legal outreach, litigation support, credit reporting, asset research, and enforcement actions such as garnishments and liens. The system personalizes collection strategies based on each debtor’s financial profile and continuously learns to optimize recovery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $520K (pre-seed round of $500K led by Y Combinator in December 2024, plus a seed round of $20K)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead), other undisclosed angel investors
- **Growth Signals**: +75% headcount growth over the past year (7 employees as of mid-2026); active hiring for multiple roles; 45 competitors in the space, yet the company has a clear niche in AI-driven automation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑Native Platform**: Fully automates manual legal and administrative tasks that traditional agencies handle with thousands of staff, reducing collection costs by up to 80% and increasing recovery rates by 2×.
- **Compliance & Brand‑Friendly**: Communicates with debtors in a respectful, amicable manner and complies with federal and state‑specific regulations.
- **Integrated Legal Network**: Proprietary network of attorneys that handles litigation and judgment enforcement, further streamlining the process.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Engineering & Sales**: Currently hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agent Engineer, and Founding Account Executive to build the product and expand the customer base.
- **Expand Market Reach**: Targeting both small collection agencies and large enterprise creditors, with a focus on increasing the number of attorneys in the legal network and entering new geographies.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, YC‑backed startup with a clear mission to modernize a massive, inefficient industry. The team is small (7–8 people) but growing rapidly.
- **Work Style**: Hybrid/office‑first in New York City; some roles are remote‑eligible (Founding Account Executive).
- **Engineering Culture**: Hands‑on work with generative AI, autonomous agents, and a modern tech stack (React, Node.js, Firebase, SQL). Emphasis on ownership and impact.
- **Compensation & Perks**: Competitive salaries (e.g., $200K–$300K for Founding Account Executive, $240K–$300K for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer) plus equity grants (0.10%–1.00%). Opportunities to shape the product from the ground up.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/trycollectwise)
2. [Y Combinator Company Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise)
3. [Y Combinator Jobs Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs)
4. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/collectwise)
5. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/collectwise/__15AvdqSTT6azan2H5egUlQp_0j7cHVk0HUJ3OQnnFQw)

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