Senior Field-Deploy Defense Software Engineer

Tagup; Sharjah; On-site; AED 551,000 - 661,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Team outings

Job summary

Tagup, a defense technology company, seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements and deliver end-to-end integrations with government data systems under real constraints.

You will design, build, and ship solutions, mentor engineers, and navigate speed-versus-robustness trade-offs on complex defense projects, including travel to customer sites and sensitive environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems integration work.
• Depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint.
• Experience deploying and debugging in constrained environments (government cloud, on-prem, etc.).
• Ability to defend design decisions to skeptical customers and teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing code across a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans and deliver multi-week engagements.
• Build custom workflows to drive adoption and engagement with key customers.
• Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud.
• Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny and review code across the team.
• Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints.
• Mentor engineers and bring learnings back to the product team.

Skills

Python/TypeScript/SQL

System design under constraint

Customer-facing engagement

Mentoring engineers

Travel to customer sites

Security clearance readiness

Job description

Tagup, a defense technology company, seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead customer engagements and deliver end-to-end integrations with government data systems under real constraints.

You will design, build, and ship solutions, mentor engineers, and navigate speed-versus-robustness trade-offs on complex defense projects, including travel to customer sites and sensitive environments.