Forward-deployed Software Engineer

Position Summary

GripFusion is building the next generation of sports performance technology with Tactile Intelligence. As our Forward-Deployed Software Engineer, you will expand every surface where GripFusion meets the athlete, from the ForceBall to the iPad, mobile, and web experiences that turn tactile data into decisions.

This is a product-facing engineering role reporting to Will Shawn, Head of Software. You will work across the full stack, spend time with players and coaches to understand how they use novel tactile data, and turn what you learn into shipped product. You will bring design and athlete thinking to every decision.

You will work alongside our product, embedded, data science, and design teams to build new visualizations, connect GripFusion to the systems our customers already use, and carry common design practices across our baseball and golf platforms.

What You'll Build

• The iPad app. Extend and harden our primary product, built in React Native on an AWS backend and used by teams today.
• The web dashboard. Build a new React dashboard where coaches and staff review sessions, compare athletes, and share insights.
• The mobileapp. Build a mobile app that communicates directly with the ForceBall and supports broader use cases at the field.
• Novel visualizations. Invent new ways to show tactile and athlete data, including 3D graphics that make the invisible obvious.
• Integrations. Pull in data from the other systems teams already use, so GripFusion fits naturally into their workflow.
• The golf platform. Contribute to our golf product and carry common design patterns and components across baseball and golf.

Key Responsibilities

• Work across the full stack, from BLE device communication and cloud services to mobile and web interfaces.
• Partner with players, coaches, and team staff to understand user needs and how they interact with tactile data.
• Balance quick prototyping and discovery with production-level engineering, testing, and deployment.
• Work with design to shape the user experience, and establish shared design practices across verticals.
• Partner with embedded and data science to define device data transmission, state handling, and data formats.
• Visit MLB teams to test with athletes and coaches, and bring product thinking back to the software stack.
• Use AI development tools every day, and help shape how the software team builds with them.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• 4+ years shipping production software across mobile and web, ideally with React Native, React, and TypeScript.
• Full-stack experience, including cloud backends on AWS and the CI/CD and release pipelines that get apps to users.