Forward Deployed Engineer

We’re working with a fast-growing AI startup building intelligent automation products for the financial services sector. Having already secured enterprise customers and proven market demand, they’re now looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer / Customer facing Software Engineer to help scale both the platform and customer deployments.

This is a highly technical role focused on software engineering, integrations and implementation. You’ll work directly with customers to design, build and deploy production-grade solutions, connecting AI-powered workflows with complex enterprise systems

What you’ll do:

• Design and build integrations, APIs, and data pipelines connecting AI agents to customer systems
• Work directly with customers to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions
• Contribute to architecture decisions across our AI platform
• Identify product improvements and influence the future direction of the technology
• Write clean, maintainable, production-quality Python code

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years’ software engineering experience
• Strong Python development skills
• Polyglot Software Engineer (C# / Java)
• Regulated Industry Experience (Banking / Insurance / Pensions)
• Experience building APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
• Comfortable working directly with customers and stakeholders
• Passion for AI, product development, and high-growth startup environments

Why join?

• Founding engineer opportunity with significant ownership
• £90,000 – £120,000 base salary
• Significant equity
• Private healthcare, pension, annual offsites
• Work alongside leadership who previously helped scale Fintech from €20m to <€100m revenue

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