Forward Deployed Engineer

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries their employees and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire build and grow great companies worldwide helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America the UK EU and APAC.

Overview

We are looking for an exceptional full-stack software engineer who will act as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to serve as the critical interface between the central AI Application Modernization Factory and our application teams. The FDE will be temporarily embedded within delivery teams to directly drive the modernization of key applications ensuring technical success accelerated adoption of AI-assisted SDLC practices and lasting upskilling of team members. This is a high-impact hybrid role requiring advanced software engineering skills deep knowledge of cloud-native patterns and proven expertise in consultation change management and building strong rapport with diverse teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Modernization Execution: Embed with application teams to provide hands-on technical leadership driving the design development and delivery of modernization efforts (re-platforming microservices adoption) to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• AI-First SDLC Adoption & Upskilling: Act as the subject matter expert on the AI Modernization Factorys tools and processes (e.g. Cursor Claude Code). Drive the adoption and change management necessary to embed AI-assisted software development practices into the teams daily workflow.

• Consultative Engineering & Change Management: Build trust and rapport with new diverse teams quickly. Identify team-specific technical and process bottlenecks recommending and implementing solutions and effectively managing the people/process side of technical change.
• Hands-on Software Development: Make significant code contributions focusing on setting up architectural scaffolding CI/CD pipelines IaC (Terraform) and solving complex blocking integration challenges for the embedded team.
• Feedback Loop: Serve as the primary feedback channel relaying practical challenges tool deficiencies and necessary process adjustments back to the central Principal Engineer and Architect to continuously improve the factorys capabilities.
• Standards & Quality: Ensure embedded teams adhere to the central factorys engineering standards including Twelve-Factor App principles DevSecOps practices and high-quality coding standards.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 5 years of progressive experience in Software Engineering with a focus on enterprise applications and application modernization.
• Full Stack Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience across the full application stack (front-end back-end database infrastructure). Expert proficiency in one or more modern technology languages (e.g. Python TypeScript C# Java).
• Cloud Native & IaC: Deep practical experience building and deploying scalable applications on AWS. Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) specifically Terraform.
• Consulting & Change Management: Proven ability to onboard rapidly assess team dynamics and technical landscapes influence technical direction without formal authority and drive organizational/process change within established engineering teams.
• DevSecOps & CI/CD: Hands-on mastery of setting up and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI) and integrating DevSecOps best practices.
• Architectural Understanding: Solid understanding of modern architectural patterns (microservices serverless event-driven architecture) and the principles of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional communication presentation and listening skills. Ability to articulate complex technical issues and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.

Preferred Skills (A Plus)

• Prior experience in a consulting Staff Engineer or Forward Deployed role specifically focused on technical adoption or modernization.
• Direct experience training or mentoring other software engineers in new technologies or methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with modern UI frameworks like React NextJS or similar.
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor Claude Code) in a professional development environment.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and serverless architectures (AWS Lambda).

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