Forward Deployed Engineer

This role sits within a recently acquired technology company building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for leading global financial institutions. The Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with strategic banking clients as a hands-on technical partner, translating modernization goals into production software at enterprise scale.

Operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationships, this role requires someone who can ship code, design integrations, and establish lasting trust with senior engineering leaders.

The position combines the autonomy and ownership of a startup with the resources, scale, and long-term impact of a global financial technology organization. The team is shaping how some of the world’s largest banks adopt next-generation core banking infrastructure, with clear accountability and direct responsibility for production outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing

Customer Engagement and Discovery

• Partner with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to understand their technology landscape, challenges, and modernization objectives.
• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements.
• Design future-state architectures that enable faster innovation.
• Become a trusted technical partner to bank engineering and architecture leaders.
• Help expand successful initial deployments into broader enterprise adoption.
• Translate recurring deployment patterns, friction points, and unmet client needs into product requirements and platform improvements.

Engineering and Integration

• Develop proofs of concept and implement banking use cases end to end, such as digital twins, checking accounts, and digital-asset wallets.
• Connect upstream and downstream systems using clean, durable, production-grade integration patterns.
• Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines connecting clients’ existing systems.
• Conduct performance testing and validate scalability, resilience, and failover behavior.

Commercial Support

• Support presales activities through technical demonstrations, architecture workshops, and platform education for prospective clients.
• Travel to client locations as needed, typically 25–50% depending on the engagement phase.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience building and shipping robust, scalable infrastructure using Go or a comparable systems language such as Rust or Java.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, including Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architecture, and multi-region databases.
• Strong experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, along with site reliability engineering principles, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines.
• An AI-native approach to engineering, including the natural integration of AI into development workflows and familiarity with current LLM and agentic-development capabilities.
• At least four years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role, such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Software Engineer.
• Experience with financial transaction flows, core banking systems, fintech, or banking technology is preferred.
• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and create processes where none exist.
• A strong ownership mindset focused on outcomes rather than individual tasks.
• The versatility to move comfortably between writing code, designing architecture, and leading client workshops.

Impact

• Directly influence core banking platforms used by major global financial institutions.
• Work with significant autonomy and accountability as part of a small, experienced team.
• Deliver software directly into enterprise-scale production environments.

What We Offer

• Opportunities to make a meaningful impact in financial technology.
• Support for personal and professional development.
• An inclusive and diverse working environment.
• Resources and opportunities to contribute to local communities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.