Forward Deployed Engineer

C&D Talent Advisory; Oxford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMI equity

King's Cross office

Team lunches

Specialty coffee

AI tooling budget

Job summary

C&D Talent Advisory is recruiting for a Forward Deployed Engineer role based in London, with on-site work at King's Cross. You will own enterprise accounts end-to-end, driving adoption, expansion, and renewal while interfacing with senior stakeholders across risk and compliance.

The role combines engineering, product, and commercial ownership in a fast-growing startup. Expect 2–5 years of experience, strong customer-facing skills, and willingness to operate with significant autonomy.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional experience.
• Evidence of owning meaningful customer outcomes.
• Confidence working directly with senior enterprise stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic enterprise accounts end-to-end.
• Drive customer adoption, expansion, and renewal.
• Act as the primary point of accountability for customer outcomes.
• Run working sessions with senior enterprise stakeholders.
• Define agendas, actions, priorities, and follow-ups.
• Translate customer requirements into prioritized product feedback.
• Influence roadmap decisions based on real customer needs.
• Manage procurement and security-review conversations.
• Coordinate internal escalations and keep complex accounts moving.
• Ship customer-facing fixes and small product features when needed.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to move from customer problem to working solution quickly.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Stakeholder management

Ownership

Commercial awareness

Autonomy

Hands-on technical

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Postgres

Express

Azure

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

AI-assisted development

Claude Code

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer | London

• Location: King's Cross, London
• Work model: On-site by default, with some flexibility
• Employment: Full-time
• Compensation:£100,000 - £130,000
• Level: Associate
• Experience: 2-5 years
• Compensation: Top-decile London market compensation
• Equity: Meaningful EMI-eligible equity
• Industry: Enterprise AI / Risk Infrastructure
• Environment: Seed-stage, high-growth startup

About the opportunity

• Join a seed-stage company building AI-native risk infrastructure for regulated enterprises
• Work with customers across financial services, regulated technology, and healthcare
• Own enterprise customer relationships from adoption through expansion and renewal
• Operate at the intersection of engineering, product, commercial ownership, and customer strategy
• Work directly with senior stakeholders including CSOs, VPs of Risk, and Heads of Compliance
• Partner closely with the CTO and influence both the product roadmap and company direction
• Join a business that reached seven-figure revenue within months of launch

What you'll own

• Own strategic enterprise accounts end-to-end
• Drive customer adoption, expansion, and renewal
• Act as the primary point of accountability for customer outcomes
• Run working sessions with senior enterprise stakeholders
• Define agendas, actions, priorities, and follow-ups
• Configure the platform around complex customer workflows
• Translate customer requirements into prioritized product feedback
• Influence roadmap decisions based on real customer needs
• Manage procurement and security-review conversations
• Support commercial and contract discussionsCoordinate internal escalations and keep complex accounts moving
• Ship customer-facing fixes and small product features when needed
• Use AI-assisted development tools to move from customer problem to working solution quickly

What we're looking for

• 2-5 years of professional experience
• Strong customer-facing or commercial experience
• Evidence of owning meaningful customer outcomes
• Confidence working directly with senior enterprise stakeholders
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to take ownership when a project or customer situation becomes challenging
• Commercial instinct and comfort navigating negotiations
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into practical solutions
• Strong bias toward action and execution
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy
• Interest in becoming increasingly hands-on technically
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving startup environment
• Based in London or able to commute regularly for an on-site role

Technical experience that stands out

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• React
• Postgres
• Express
• Azure
• Terraform
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• AI-assisted software development
• Claude Code or similar coding agents
• Full-stack or backend-oriented development
• Ability to understand systems beyond purely front-end implementation

What will make you successful

• Strong sense of ownership
• Commercial awareness
• Technical curiosity
• Confidence with customers
• Ability to operate without detailed instructions
• Willingness to get hands-on when necessary
• Comfort switching between customer conversations and technical problem-solving
• Ability to manage multiple strategic accounts simultaneously
• Strong prioritisation in high-pressure situations
• Startup-style speed and accountability
• Desire to grow into a highly technical customer-facing operator

What you'll get

• Direct access to senior enterprise decision-makers
• Significant ownership from an early stage
• Close partnership with the CTO
• Meaningful influence over product direction
• Exposure to complex enterprise deployments
• Opportunity to build both commercial and technical depth
• Hands-on experience with AI-native products
• Strong AI tooling and API budgets
• Daily team lunch
• Specialty coffee
• King's Cross office with roof terrace and on-site facilities
• Meaningful EMI-eligible equity
• Fast interview process designed to conclude within approximately two weeks

If this sounds like a fit, we'd love to hear from you.