Forward Deployed Engineer

Wonderful; Niederösterreich; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great salary

Early stage share options

Job summary

Wonderful in Austria is seeking a seasoned software engineer to deploy agentic AI systems into production for major enterprises. You will own end-to-end delivery, work directly with customers, and shape the platform with real-world data.

This role requires German at C2 level, strong ownership, and the ability to translate complex problems into solid technical designs. You will operate in a hybrid setup with travel to client sites locally.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling end to end production systems.
• Experience integrating platforms into customer environments using APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP, and production data flows.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills.
• You’re comfortable working directly with customers and owning ambiguous problems.
• Clear communication skills and a strong ownership mindset.
• Interest in building AI-powered systems that work in practice.
• You speak German to a minimum C2 level (You must be comfortable communicating with clients in German).

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand operational challenges and success criteria.
• Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementations.
• Own delivery of the Wonderful platform and guide clients on best practice.
• Build AI agents that integrate with customer systems, data sources, and APIs.
• Conduct ad hoc workshops with client teams.
• Write production quality code to support integrations, logic, and workflows.
• Own deployments, including reliability, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Test with real data, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to improve the platform.
• Contribute to tools, documentation, and delivery practices that help us scale.

Skills

Software engineering

Production systems

APIs

Customer interaction

Communication

Ownership

AI systems

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Python

Cloud environments

Job description

Maybe you are already building with Agentic AI and are frustrated by how rarely it reaches production. Or maybe you have started experimenting and know you want to work on these systems properly, not just around the edges.

At Wonderful, you will not spend your time building demos that go nowhere. You will help deploy Agentic systems into production at major enterprises, on timelines measured in weeks and months, not years.

What you will do

This is a hands on role for high calibre software engineers who enjoy hard technical problems, real ownership, and work that has visible impact.

Every client environment is different. The expectation is the same: get it working in production.

• Work directly with customers to understand operational challenges and success criteria
• Translate open-ended problems into clear technical designs and implementations
• Own delivery of the Wonderful platform and guide clients on best practice
• Build AI agents that integrate with customer systems, data sources, and APIs
• Conduct ad hoc workshops with client teams
• Write production quality code to support integrations, logic, and workflows
• Own deployments, including reliability, performance, and continuous improvement
• Test with real data, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to improve the platform
• Contribute to tools, documentation, and delivery practices that help us scale

Why should you

• You’ll be part of what is tipped as the fastest growing startup in Europe
• Work on a cutting edge agentic solution, the hottest topic in enterprise right now
• You’ll join a team of high agency builders coming from the best tech companies out there
• Global company, local team, you’ll be part of the founding team
• Never boring, you’ll be solving problems for and with the biggest enterprises in Austria
• A mix of home office and travel to clients locally
• Great salary and early stage share options

Who you are

• Several years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience building and scaling end to end production systems
• Experience integrating platforms into customer environments using APIs, cloud infrastructure, MCP, and production data flows
• Strong technical problem-solving skills
• You’re comfortable working directly with customers and owning ambiguous problems
• Clear communication skills and a strong ownership mindset
• Interest in building AI-powered systems that work in practice
• You speak German to a minimum C2 level (You must be comfortable communicating with clients in German)

Nice to have

• Experience in forward deployed, solutions engineering, or customer-facing roles
• Exposure to AI agents, automation, or conversational systems
• You’ve been part of a fast growing start up and enjoy the pace
• Familiarity with cloud environments
• Experience with TypeScript, Go or Python