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Forward Deployed Engineer
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Forward Deployed Engineer
đź“Ť Shoreditch, London | 5 days onsite
💰 £100,000–£160,000 + equity
The Role
We’re working with a fast-growing, venture-backed AI software company looking for exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers to join its London team.
This is a hands-on software engineering role for someone who wants to work directly with major enterprise customers, understand complex real-world problems and then build the software that solves them.
You’ll own deployments from the first customer conversation through to production. That means understanding how customers actually operate, deciding what needs to be built, writing the software and iterating based on how it performs in the real world.
You’ll work across the full stack, including frontend, backend, data and AI-powered functionality, while feeding what you learn from individual deployments back into the core product.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand complex operational workflows
- Own customer deployments from initial scoping through to production rollout
- Design and build full-stack software around real customer problems
- Work across frontend, backend, data models and AI/LLM-powered functionality
- Build systems that extract structure and intelligence from complex documents and unstructured data
- Turn customer-specific solutions into reusable product capabilities
- Work closely with founders and senior engineers to influence the wider product
- Review real-world outputs and improve accuracy, reliability and usability
- Make independent engineering and product decisions in a high-ownership environment
- Ship production software quickly and iterate based on real user feedback
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What We’re Looking For
- Around 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack engineering ability, ideally including Python and modern frontend development
- Experience building and shipping substantial software into production for real users
- A strong engineering track record within a high-quality startup, scale-up or technology company
- Evidence of solving difficult technical and product problems, rather than simply building prototypes
- Strong product intuition and good UI/UX judgement
- Personable, confident and credible when working directly with customers
- Comfortable taking an ambiguous problem and owning the solution from start to finish
- Someone who thrives with significant autonomy rather than waiting for tickets or detailed specifications
- Able to work five days a week from the Shoreditch office
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Package
- £100,000–£160,000 base salary
- Equity
- Significant ownership from day one
- Direct exposure to major enterprise customers
- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership as the engineering organisation expands
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