Forward Deployed Engineer

Droit; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work closely with clients and technology teams. You will be responsible for developing software and infrastructure, ensuring solutions meet client needs and adhering to technical standards. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience delivering solutions in high-pressure environments and a strong knowledge of modern development practices. This role offers flexibility and focuses on client success.

Benefits

Holistic benefits for physical and mental health

Commitment to growth through continuous feedback

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in shipping products and solutions.
• Experience working with large institutions on technical projects.
• Ability to embed with customers and drive product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Understand client goals and develop strategies to achieve them.
• Work end-to-end across the development lifecycle.
• Support infrastructure, improve incident detection, and deploy new services.
• Create architecture artifacts and reusable solution patterns.

Skills

Experience in high level programming language

Experience with CI/CD systems

Experience with K8s clusters

Experience with IAC tools

Experience with AWS services

Experience in product development processes

Strong problem-solving skills

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps tooling

Job description

Who We Are

Droit is a technology company at the forefront of merging finance and computational law. We build software that digitizes regulations and makes intelligent decisions in real‑time transactional systems. Our award‑winning platform is providing mission‑critical, low‑latency services for the world’s most prominent and complex financial institutions.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer you will work closely with Droit’s Technology team to design, develop, implement and deploy software and infrastructure. This role will also partner closely with our Business Development and Client Success teams, embedding with customers to understand their domain and co‑develop solutions.

We are looking for someone who can understand technical, business, and client requirements to deliver software and solutions efficiently. You have experience developing, deploying and supporting software for large institutions. You are exceptional at approaching problems pragmatically. You thrive on helping clients succeed.

What You Will Do In this role

• Understand clients’ goals and objectives and develop strategies to help them achieve those goals, including gathering feedback to inform further product development.
• Work end‑to‑end across the entire development lifecycle from idea to deployment to measuring feature impact.
• Evangelize Droit technology amongst clients and internal stakeholders, prepare materials, POCs and demonstrate value, benefits and solutions. Develop deep insight and understanding of the audience, and what problems are important.
• Commit to learning the Droit application stack, and some of the business domain, to have a good understanding of what drives value for our clients. Reflect on client feedback and communicate nuance and details effectively.
• Work on client integrations, support Droit stakeholders, get feedback from clients and develop strategic solutions with your colleagues.
• Support infrastructure, improve incident detection, deploy new services, and improve operational maturity.
• Create architecture artifacts and reusable solution patterns (logical architecture diagrams, workflows, data flow diagrams, presentations, etc.) effectively communicating solutions to varied audiences.
• Ensure solutions meet policies and requirements for technical standards, security, operation, and support.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals, both internally and with clients.
• Define and standardize processes and tooling across multiple projects.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience shipping code in at least one high level language and writing tools in at least one scripting language.
• Competence with at least one modern CI/CD system, experience with alternatives.
• At least 5 years of experience shipping products and solutions for distributed Platform‑as‑a‑Service offerings.
• Experience operating, optimizing, maintaining and monitoring K8s clusters as a platform.
• Extensive experience with at least one IAC tool, and with GitOps tooling.
• Extensive experience with the core AWS service offerings (professional certs a plus).
• Experience developing robust infrastructure, launching a new tech stack, and supporting business critical applications in production.
• Experience with modern product development processes – collaborating with developers, product owners and QA, to address latency, performance, HA/FT, deployment, upgrades, etc.
• A strong desire to embed with customers, drive product decisions, and deliver excellent solutions to clients.

What We Offer

• Holistic benefits for you and your family to support your physical and mental health.
• A commitment to growth through continuous feedback and experiences.
• The opportunity to work in close‑knit, global teams.
• Flexibility for where you work and purpose for when we come together in person.

Little more about Droit

We believe in maintaining a diverse, innovative and inclusive workforce. Our people join us from a variety of backgrounds, and these diverse experiences help fuel our growth and ensure that our clients receive best‑in‑class products.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

As we scale, we continue to commit to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or Veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.