Forward Deployed Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will work directly with customer engineering and operations groups to understand complex environments and deliver production-ready solutions. You will prototype, configure, deploy, integrate, test, and support enterprise software, including in on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped environments. You will also create reusable deployment assets and convert implementation feedback into product improvements.

Requirements

• Four to eight years of experience in software engineering forward deployed engineering solutions engineering professional services technical consulting implementation engineering or enterprise software delivery
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Python Go or Rust
• Experience implementing and deploying enterprise software in complex customer environments
• Understanding of protocol intermediation enterprise integration patterns cloud technologies security fundamentals and modern software architectures
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers during implementation and deployment projects
• Strong analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Ability to collaborate across product management engineering enterprise sales and consulting functions
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations across Europe
• Excellent English skills
• Financial institution experience preferred
• Bitcoin blockchain digital assets tokenization or fintech experience preferred
• Experience integrating enterprise software through APIs and modern integration frameworks preferred
• Cloud containerized deployment or infrastructure automation knowledge preferred
• Layer-2 and digital asset infrastructure familiarity preferred
• Experience contributing implementation feedback to engineering roadmaps preferred

Responsibilities

• Prototype minimum viable solutions and proof of concepts with AI-assisted development
• Support technical pre-sales RFPs RFIs security questionnaires and solution scoping
• Own technical delivery from project kickoff through production deployment and post-launch support
• Understand financial institutions' business processes operational workflows and technical environments
• Configure deploy and optimize enterprise products
• Plan implementations and execute configuration testing UAT deployment and post-go-live support
• Define implementation success criteria and milestones
• Deliver administrator and end-user enablement sessions
• Integrate enterprise products with core banking and capital-markets systems
• Deploy into on-premise network-isolated and air-gapped environments
• Produce security and audit evidence for compliance and penetration testing
• Design integrations using integration interfaces and data pipeline technologies
• Troubleshoot technical configuration and integration challenges
• Develop reusable deployment assets playbooks documentation and best practices
• Resolve product issues and improve implementation quality
• Facilitate technical workshops architecture discussions and implementation planning
• Advise customer stakeholders throughout implementations
• Build relationships across customer technology operations security and engineering functions
• Turn implementation learnings and customer feedback into code
• Identify repeatable deployment patterns and standardize implementation methods
• Contribute implementation insights to product roadmaps
• Improve deployment frameworks and time-to-production