Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (mwd)

Join our small hands-on team to create AI solutions in enterprise context and launch your own ideas at the same time. Youll have real freedom shape the tech and share in the success (salary earnings share and equity in products we launch). If you have a startup spirit enjoy side projects and want to see your work make a real impact wed love to connect.

About us
Overfly is a Berlin-based Partner for Applied AI. Were a team of engineers product builders and strategists who help enterprises find high-impact AI use cases then design and build them to production.

Tasks

What youll be doing

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Technical leadership**

Owning the technical direction of client projects end-to-end from architecture decisions (multi-tenant cloud auth data isolation) to production-ready delivery on enterprise cloud infrastructure (Azure GCP OVH)

Making and defending the unsexy calls: IaC standards release strategies CI/CD pipelines security architecture deployment topology

Designing systems that hold up in regulated enterprise environments including DSGVO ISO 27001 SOC2 pen-tests and compliance reviews

Stakeholder navigation in complex enterprise settings

Being the technical voice in client meetings. You translate trade-offs scope feasibility and shape requirements with non-technical decision makers IT security legal and C-levels in parallel

Running the room when enterprise stakeholders disagree: mediating between internal IT (firewalls VPN network architecture) external partners (hosting auth providers) and process owners with conflicting agendas

Managing expectations proactively: surfacing risks early correcting unrealistic cost or timeline assumptions with real numbers and escalating through the right channels when needed

Communicating commitments that hold. Binding dates clear scope honest status. Not optimism disguised as a plan

Forward Deployed work

Embedding into client teams shipping real features alongside their engineers and process owners often across multiple organisations at once

Ramping quickly into unfamiliar codebases legacy enterprise systems (Oracle SAP-adjacent environments) and complex domains (utility metering insurance FMCG)

Translating user reality (e.g. the Sachbearbeiterin who wants Excel-like UX) into something your engineering team can actually build

Team organisation

Coordinating internal engineers external partners and client staff on the same delivery: clear ownership clear handoffs clear status

Unblocking problems across projects reviewing code and raising the bar on how we ship

Collaborating with strategy and product to turn business goals into technical plans with budget and timeline attached

Hands-on engineering

Building full-stack solutions with TypeScript (React Node Tailwind) and integrating AI where it creates real value not where its trendy

Staying ahead on AI tooling and pulling what works into our projects and workflows

Requirements

What youll bring

58 years of full-stack experience (React Node TypeScript) and at least one production deployment you personally owned from architecture to go-live on a major cloud (Azure AWS GCP or equivalent)

Proven ability to own technical direction from start to finish: architecture infra CI/CD security delivery

Consulting or agency experience working directly with enterprise clients ideally in regulated environments (utilities finance insurance pharma)

Outstanding communication skills in German and English. You can explain a VPN trade-off to a non-technical CFO and a compliance officer in the same meeting and both leave convinced

Calm under stakeholder pressure. You know when to push back when to escalate and when to just ship

An entrepreneurial mindset. You turn ambiguity into plans and plans into working products

German at a professional working level. Non-negotiable for our enterprise client conversations

Tech we use

Our current tools include:

AI frameworks and APIs (LangChain OpenAI Google Vertex AI Azure AI)

TypeScript (React Node) Tailwind CSS Vite React React Router

Analytics tools like Mixpanel and PostHog

Databases like Supabase Postgresql Azure Cosmos DB

Deployment platforms (Vercel Google Cloud)

Benefits

What we offer

Real equity in the products we build together with an option to invest further

4-day work week as team default

Customizable perks (transportation pass gym membership rental bike) choose what fits your life

Autonomous self-managed work environment

Experienced flat team structure no corporate hierarchy here

Opportunity to build practical valuable AI products used by real people

Remote or hybrid work model: 2 days/week at Delta Campus the rest remote

Competitive salary plus annual bonus based on company performance

How to apply

We dont need a polished CV. Just send us your LinkedIn profile or a quick overview of your background plus short answers (25 sentences each) to these prompts:

A project you built yourself and what made it special

Why youre excited about AI especially something you think most people get wrong

A full-stack project where you took technical leadership

A clever non-technical solution or hack youve used to gain an advantage

This helps us quickly understand who you are and what motivates you.