Forward Deployed Engineer

Engineer

Remote

August 7, 2026

Application ends: November 4, 2026

REQUIREMENTS

Solid full-stack or backend engineering experience, including production integrations, application programming interfaces, or automation pipelines.
Ability to create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
Ability to distinguish one-off customer workarounds from reusable node improvements and product features worth escalating.
Comfort working directly in customer environments and building trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to turn ambiguous operational problems into clean, practical technical designs.
Strong technical judgment to avoid unnecessary complexity and know when to build or push back.
Willingness to travel approximately 50–60% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
Ability to quickly understand new industries, technology stacks, and customer environments.

RESPONSIBILITES

Drive enterprise deployments by embedding on-site with customers for focused five-day engagements and leaving production workflows in place.
Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.
Build clear, actionable solutions from complex customer environments for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Design and build production-grade workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to customer environments and scalable beyond the initial use case.
Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality to support high-value enterprise use cases.
Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs focused on customer value.
Identify when bespoke customer requirements should become reusable node improvements, product features, or platform capabilities.
Document technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals for Product and Engineering.
Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.
Turn customer learnings into product features and reusable playbooks that make subsequent engagements faster and more productized.
Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes rather than open-ended professional-services work.
Build solutions that customers can operate themselves.
Know when to build, simplify, or push back to keep engagements focused and scalable.