Client-Facing Software Engineer – Data & AI Integrations

Crane Venture Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London office 4+ days/week

Learning & development budget

25 days annual leave + UK holidays

Travel for customer visits across UK/€

Company lunches and socials

Job summary

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join our product engineering team. This engineering-first role places you at the center of strategic customer deployments, working directly with client engineers to design, build, and ship integrated data and ML pipelines.

As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you will operate autonomously, own deployments end-to-end, and help shape the roadmap while London office-based 4+ days a week, with travel across the UK and

Qualifications

• 3-8 years in a software engineering role.
• Experience building or working with data integrations and APIs; Python is a big plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and take ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship high-quality production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' data and ML pipelines.
• Own system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speed.
• Work directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-end.
• Build data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at pace.
• Communicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholders.
• Operate with autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to feed customer insights back into the roadmap.
• Help define and scale the Forward Deployed function as an early team member.

Skills

Python

APIs

Data pipelines

Communication

Job description

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join our product engineering team. This engineering-first role places you at the center of strategic customer deployments, working directly with client engineers to design, build, and ship integrated data and ML pipelines.

As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you will operate autonomously, own deployments end-to-end, and help shape the roadmap while London office-based 4+ days a week, with travel across the UK and