Hunter & Co. Recruitment
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Software Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Bristol - hybrid, approximately 1–2 days per week in the office
Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum
Employment type: Permanent, full-time
About the role
Due to continued growth, our client is expanding its UK engineering team and looking for Software Engineers to join its Bristol office.
This is a little different from a traditional software development position. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll combine hands-on engineering with client-facing consultancy, working directly with clients to understand their challenges, shape practical solutions and take projects from initial idea through to production.
The role is approximately a 50/50 split between technical delivery and consultative work. You don’t need to specialise in one particular technology, but you should have strong technical foundations, enjoy solving unfamiliar problems and be comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing
- Working directly with clients to understand their challenges and gather requirements
- Translating unclear or ambitious ideas into realistic technical solutions
- Designing, building, deploying and supporting software in production
- Developing full-stack applications, APIs and cloud-based services
- Contributing to architecture and wider technical decisions
- Using AI and automation to improve products and development workflows
- Explaining technical concepts, limitations and trade-offs clearly
- Collaborating with engineers, client teams and senior stakeholders
- Taking ownership of delivery from discovery through to implementation
- Learning new technologies and adapting to different projects quickly
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What we’re looking for
- Commercial experience as a Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer or within a similar technical role
- Experience delivering software beyond the prototype stage
- Strong programming experience in languages such as Python, Java, TypeScript or JavaScript
- Exposure to cloud platforms, APIs, databases and modern development practices
- The ability to work across different technologies rather than within one narrow specialism
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Confidence working with clients or non-technical colleagues
- A solutions-focused approach and the ability to work with changing or incomplete requirements
- Experience taking ownership of technical projects or features
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Desirable experience
- Building AI, LLM, RAG or agent-based applications
- Using AI coding tools to automate or improve development workflows
- Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, Docker or Kubernetes
- Consultancy, professional services or customer-facing engineering
- Experience within healthcare, life sciences or another regulated environment
Why join?
- Work on varied digital and AI-led projects for leading healthcare and life-sciences clients
- Combine technical engineering with meaningful client interaction
- Join a growing UK engineering team with the opportunity to make an early impact
- Work within a flexible and trust-based hybrid environment
- Gain exposure to different technologies, challenges and client organisations
- Develop towards technical leadership, architecture or consulting
Interview process
The process consists of an initial screening conversation, a take-home technical assessment and two interview stages covering technical ability and client-facing problem-solving.
If you’re a Software Engineer who enjoys building solutions but wants more ownership, variety and client interaction, we’d love to hear from you.
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