Forward Deployment Engineer
- Austin
- Permanent
- Permanent IT
- ABj11-1606963
- 11/07/2025
Forward Deployment Engineer – Customer-Facing Software Delivery
Locations: Austin, Seattle, San Francisco (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Comp: $126k–$220k DOE + Benefits | Full-Time | Immediate Start
Our client, a high-growth SaaS company at the forefront of workforce automation, is hiring multiple Forward Deployment Engineers to join a high-impact, customer-facing engineering team.
These engineers act as true technical partners—collaborating directly with clients to understand their business needs, build tailored integrations, and deploy scalable, production-ready solutions using Python, JavaScript, and other modern tools. It’s a hands-on, full lifecycle role where you’ll work cross-functionally and own real delivery outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
Certus Recruitment Group is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia.
Locations: Austin, Seattle, San Francisco (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Comp: $126k–$220k DOE + Benefits | Full-Time | Immediate Start
Our client, a high-growth SaaS company at the forefront of workforce automation, is hiring multiple Forward Deployment Engineers to join a high-impact, customer-facing engineering team.
These engineers act as true technical partners—collaborating directly with clients to understand their business needs, build tailored integrations, and deploy scalable, production-ready solutions using Python, JavaScript, and other modern tools. It’s a hands-on, full lifecycle role where you’ll work cross-functionally and own real delivery outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading discovery sessions with client stakeholders to uncover pain points and gather technical requirements
- Designing and building custom applications, connectors, workflows, and analytics solutions
- Writing clean, production-grade code across Python, JavaScript, and other modern languages (Ruby, Go, C++, Java, etc.)
- Creating and maintaining scalable ETL pipelines and data integrations
- Supporting customers through implementation, deployment, and optimisation
- Collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to shape internal tooling and roadmaps
- Acting as a trusted advisor and technical lead across complex deployments
- 4–7 years’ experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering
- Strong coding ability—especially in Python and JavaScript
- Solid understanding of data modelling, SQL, and ETL pipeline design
- Experience working directly with external customers or in highly consultative, delivery-focused roles
- Bachelor's in Computer Science from a top-tier university (or equivalent experience)
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable working independently and managing your own projects
- Willing to travel up to 25% if needed
- Salary between $126k–$220k depending on experience
- Full benefits, hybrid working (3 days in-office), and visa sponsorship if required
- Work on real-world problems with immediate customer impact
- Join a growing team with multiple open headcount and urgent hiring goals
Certus Recruitment Group is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia.