Forward Deployed Engineer

aifano GmbH; Herford; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity where applicable

30 days PTO

Learning budget

AI tooling

Remote work (EU/UK/US)

Job summary

aifano GmbH is seeking a senior engineer to own the whole lifecycle: analyze → design → implement → release → operate, applying systems thinking to model dependencies and turn ambiguity into shippable software. You’ll collaborate with customers and teammates to clarify problems, present designs and trade-offs, and communicate crisply throughout execution.

You’ll build with AI, engineer solutions, and pair daily with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments while

Qualifications

• Proven track record in designing and delivering large-scale systems.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, React/Next.js, Python, and Rust.
• Solid knowledge of data modeling, caching, and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills with customer-facing experience.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-enabled features and contribute new patterns to our blueprint.
• Engineer solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and define architecture.
• Pair daily with product and design to clarify problems and deliver increments.
• Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontends; observe and optimize in prod.
• Own reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
• Work directly with clients to clarify requirements and validate solutions.

Skills

Senior engineer

Node.js

TypeScript

React/Next.js

Python

Rust

Data fundamentals

Schema design

Caching

Event-driven

Kafka/Redis

Cloud experience

AWS

Azure

Cloudflare

ADRs/docs

Communication skills

Internal platforms

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Redis

Airflow

Kafka

Temporal

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare KV

R2

Job description

The Role You’ll own the whole lifecycle, analyze → design → implement → release → operate, applying systems thinking to model dependencies and identify leverage points in the system, making clear engineering decisions to turn ambiguity into shippable software. You’ll collaborate directly with customers, clients, and teammates to clarify problems, present designs and trade-offs in writing and demos, and communicate crisply throughout execution.

What You’ll Do

• Build with AI: use generative tools, evals, and our components; contribute new patterns back into our blueprint.
• Engineer solutions and make decisions: evaluate trade-offs, pick patterns, make the architecture designs, develop and commit.
• Pair daily with product and design; turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments.
• Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontends; instrument, observe, and optimize them in prod.
• Own the solution. Reliability, scalability, performance, availability.
• Work directly with the clients: clarify requirements, validate solutions, and close the loop. Fast.

Required Skills

• Senior-level expertise in designing, engineering, and implementing large-scale solutions. Node.js + TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL; Python; Rust or anything else of your taste
• Data and systems fundamentals: schema design, pragmatic caching, event-driven architectures (Kafka/Redis)
• Cloud and edge: AWS or Azure; Cloudflare (Workers/Durable Objects/KV) experience is excellent
• Systems thinking mindset; comfortable writing specs, design docs, ADRs, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to analyze, design, solution, and present
• Experience building internal platforms or templates that speed up other engineers

Typical Stack

• Languages / Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Rust or Ruby
• Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Airflow
• Messaging/Streaming/Workflows: Kafka, Temporal
• Cloud / Edge: GCP, Azure or AWS is OK but our love goes to Cloudflare (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, R2, etc.)
• Infra/Tooling: Docker, GitHub Actions, IaC (Terraform)

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonus; equity where applicable.
• Up to 30 days PTO; public holidays (location-based); high-end laptop + tools; learning budget; extensive AI tooling.
• Fully remote from the EU, the UK or the US, with occasional travel.

FAQ

Remote? Yes, fully remote from anywhere in Germany after a successfull onboarding. Visa? Case by case. Tech stack? Whatever works; we prefer JS/TS + Python (see stack above). Rust or Ruby sometimes happens. AI tools? Extensively. Work-life? Work hard. Rest well. No weekends unless prod is on fire. Growth path? Build products → Lead practices → Build the company.

Who shouldn’t apply?

Process evangelists, architecture astronauts, meeting enthusiasts, or anyone needing constant supervision.

Equal Opportunity

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate only on the ability to ship great software.

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