Forward Deployed Engineer

Youll own the whole lifecycle analyze design implement release operate applying systems thinking to model dependencies and identify leverage points in the system making clear engineering decisions to turn ambiguity into shippable software.

Youll collaborate directly with customers clients and teammates to clarify problems present designs and trade-offs in writing and demos and communicate crisply throughout execution.

• Build with AI: use generative tools evals and our components; contribute new patterns back into our blueprint.

• Engineer solutions and make decisions: evaluate trade-offs pick patterns make the architecture designs develop and commit.

• Pair daily with product and design; turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments.

• Build scalable services APIs data pipelines and frontends; instrument observe and optimize them in prod.

• Own the solution. Reliability scalability performance availability.

• Work directly with the clients: clarify requirements validate solutions and close the loop. Fast.

• Document clearly and present effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Senior-level expertise in designing engineering and implementing large-scale solutions. TypeScript React/ PostgreSQL; Python; Rust or anything else of your taste

• Data and systems fundamentals: schema design pragmatic caching event-driven architectures (Kafka/Redis)

• Cloud and edge: AWS or Azure; Cloudflare (Workers/Durable Objects/KV) experience is excellent

• Systems thinking mindset; comfortable writing specs design docs ADRs etc.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to analyze design solution and present

• Experience building internal platforms or templates that speed up other engineers

• Languages / Frameworks: TypeScript Python Rust or Ruby

• Data: PostgreSQL ClickHouse Redis Airflow

• Messaging/Streaming/Workflows: Kafka Temporal

• Cloud / Edge: GCP Azure or AWS is OK but our love goes to Cloudflare (Workers Durable Objects KV R2 etc.)

• Infra/Tooling: Docker GitHub Actions IaC (Terraform)

• Competitive salary bonus; equity where applicable.

• Up to 30 days PTO; public holidays (location-based); high-end laptop tools; learning budget; extensive AI tooling.

• Fully remote from the EU the UK or the US with occasional travel.

Remote

Yes fully remote from anywhere in Germany after a successfull onboarding.

Visa

Case by case.

Tech stack

Whatever works; we prefer JS/TS Python (see stack above). Rust or Ruby sometimes happens.

AI tools

Extensively.

Work-life

Work hard. Rest well. No weekends unless prod is on fire.

Growth path

Build products Lead practices Build the company.

Who shouldnt apply

Process evangelists architecture astronauts meeting enthusiasts or anyone needing constant supervision.

Were an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate only on the ability to ship great software.