Forward Deployed Engineer

🚀 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

🛠️ 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

📍 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!