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🚀 Forward Deployed Engineer - London
I’m working with a fast-growing, venture-backed AI startup that is hiring several Forward Deployed Engineers to join its engineering team in Shoreditch.
This is not a traditional FDE role where you spend your time configuring software or writing integrations.
You’ll sit directly with customers, understand how their teams actually work, turn messy real-world workflows into software, and own the engineering from idea → production.
You’ll be joining a ~20-person company that has raised a $4.5M seed round from top-tier investors and is already deployed inside some of the largest enterprises in its industry. The company is growing rapidly and plans to double its headcount this year.
🔥 What makes the role interesting:
- Build and ship production software from your first week
- Work directly with customers and founders
- Own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data and AI/model layers
- Work on AI-powered workflows involving document intelligence, technical review, inspection and complex operational processes
- Huge amount of autonomy - you'll decide what to build, not just how to build it
- Genuine opportunity to grow into a technical leadership role as the team scales
- Meaningful equity in a very early-stage company
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🛠️ What we're looking for:
- 3–6 years of software/product engineering experience
- Strong full-stack engineering ability
- Strong Python experience plus frontend experience
- Experience building and shipping real production systems
- Comfortable working directly with customers and non-technical stakeholders
- Someone who enjoys ambiguity, moves quickly and can take a problem from zero → shipped product
- Strong engineering pedigree - experience at a high-quality startup, scale-up or engineering-led company is ideal
- Founding engineer, early-stage startup or Forward Deployed experience is a major plus
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đź“Ť Shoreditch, London - predominantly 5 days/week in the office
💰 £100,000–£160,000 + meaningful equity
🛂 Visa sponsorship available
This is a great opportunity for an engineer who wants significantly more ownership than they'd get in a traditional engineering role - and wants to be close to both the customer and the product.
Interested? Apply here or drop me a DM!
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