Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary: £100,000 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• Around 3+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience building production software, not just prototypes
• Ability to understand messy customer requirements and turn them into working technology
• Confidence communicating directly with senior and non-technical customers
• A genuinely engaging, energetic and commercially aware personality
• Ability and desire to operate in a very fast-moving startup with significant ownership
• Strong TypeScript/React and Python experience would be particularly relevant
• Experience deploying AI or LLM-powered products into production would be particularly relevant
• Experience working as an FDE, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Customer Engineer or similar customer-facing engineer within a highly regarded technology business is ideally preferred
• Exceptional engineers from top-tier technology companies, startups or quantitative/trading environments who can demonstrate the right combination of engineering ability and customer-facing aptitude will also be considered

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand complex workflows and problems
• Translate customer requirements into technical solutions
• Build and ship production software end-to-end
• Work across frontend, backend, data and AI-powered functionality
• Take ownership of customer deployments from problem discovery through to delivery
• Feed what we learn from customers directly back into the core product and engineering team
• Operate with significant autonomy in a small, exceptionally high-calibre engineering environment

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Frontend
• LLM
• Python
• REST
• React
• TypeScript

More:

We are a fast-growing, well-funded AI startup building technology for a huge global industry that has historically relied on manual, complex and outdated processes. We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit directly between our customers and engineering team. This role is not a pre-sales or traditional solutions position; you will spend roughly 40 to 50% of your time working directly with customers and the rest building and shipping solutions. We operate with a genuinely high-intensity startup culture and the team is currently working on a 996-style basis, so this role will not suit someone looking for a conventional 9-to-5 environment. In return, you will join at an early stage, work alongside an extremely strong technical team, have substantial ownership over what you build and receive meaningful equity alongside a £100,000 to £150,000 base salary. Visa sponsorship is available.

last updated 37 week of 2026