Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Full-stack)
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Job Summary
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Were hiring a Forward Deployed Full-Stack Engineer to work directly with our strategic customers. By embedding with their teams you will design build and ship production-ready features integrations and workflows on top of deepsets AI Platform. Youll blend a product-engineering mindset with customer-facing technical depth: crafting intuitive UIs reliable backend services and integration patterns that accelerate AI adoption. If you love solving complex product challenges hands-on and want to see your work deliver immediate real-world impact this role is for you.
Why deepset
At deepset were on a mission to make custom AI solutions accessible to every organization. With Haystack thousands of developers build advanced LLM applications every day while our enterprise-ready AI Platform helps companies turn large language models into business value. Were remote-first flexible and built on a culture of trust and ownership. Youll collaborate with top-tier tech talent tackle meaningful challenges and help transform complex AI into solutions that are simple powerful and ready for the real world.
What you will do
Design & Land
- Own technical outcomes from POC production: frontend workflows backend services customer-specific integrations and feature extensions.
- Build intuitive React/TypeScript UIs and robust backend logic in Python that enable enterprises to orchestrate large-scale LLM applications.
- Produce reference architectures reusable UI components and integration templates; upstream productizable improvements to Product & Engineering.
- Unblock enterprise environments by defining API requirements designing data flows aligning on authentication models (e.g. OIDC/SAML) and integrating with customer systems.
- Drive clarity from ambiguity: translate customer needs into well-scoped product solutions and deliver fast time-to-first-value.
- Define success metrics with customers: usability expectations performance constraints data consistency guarantees and UX quality standards.
- Implement testing monitoring and lightweight observability for customer-facing workflows you build.
- Support planned releases customer rollout coordination and backward-compatibility validation to ensure smooth upgrades.
- Work closely with users product managers designers and engineers to deeply understand customer workflows and shape intuitive end-to-end experiences.
- Train customer teams on the features you deliverUI concepts APIs customization hooks and troubleshooting paths.
- Prioritize productization opportunities with Product/Engineering based on real-world usage and field signal.
- Document clearly: setup guides UX flows API examples best practices and golden path usage patterns.
- Handle urgent customer-facing issues during high-priority deployments or escalations
Requirements
- 7 years of professional experience in Full-Stack Engineering Solutions Engineering or Forward-Deployed/Customer-Facing Engineering roles.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript React and backend development in Python.
- Solid mastery of:
- REST APIs data modeling and SQL databases
- CI/CD pipelines testing strategies and production-grade coding standards
- Containerized environments (e.g. Docker; Kubernetes familiarity is a plus but not a core requirement)
- Evidence of shipping customer-facing features and operating production systems.
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems (authentication APIs security/compliance requirements).
- Excellent communicator who is comfortable working with customer executives and engineering teams under time pressure.
- Must be a resident of the European Union with an EU passport.
Nice to have
- German language skills
Benefits
- Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice
- 30 days vacation extra days for family sick leave
- Competitive salary & stock options for every team member
- Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva
- Annual learning & development budget
- Monthly team socials & in-person meetups
- Dog-friendly Berlin HQ
About us
Founded in 2018 deepset builds open and enterprise-grade tools that help teams build AI with purpose. From Haystack our open-source framework to the deepset AI Platform we give developers and organizations the building blocks to solve complex high impact challenges with AI with full control transparency and sovereignty. Backed by GV and Balderton were growing the worlds production AI community and customer base solving challenges too critical to get wrong.
Visit us to learn more:deepset WebsiteHaystack WebsiteGitHubLinkedinX deepset (Twitter)X haystack (Twitter)
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Our vision: We make machines understand language so that humans can achieve more. Our mission: To make custom AI solutions accessible to every organization, driving adoption and impact. By combining innovation with expertise, we simplify the complexity of LLM agent and application dev ... View more
