Forward Deployed Platform Engineer (AI) — Accelerate Velocity

Ifs1; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform who embeds with product teams to accelerate velocity and enable platform adoption. You will work at the code level to design production-ready solutions on the IFS Cloud platform, implementing event-driven patterns and building reusable tooling.

You will collaborate with the NGA architecture team, translate pain points into roadmap input, and maintain strong ties between R&D and platform consumers.

Qualifications

• Senior, hands-on engineer with cloud-native experience.
• Experience building production systems and debugging in production.
• Able to ship quickly in ambiguous environments and to communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Experience collaborating with platform or infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product teams and customer engineering to maximise velocity.
• Lead technical discovery to identify bottlenecks, not just symptoms.
• Design and build production-grade solutions on the IFS Cloud platform: workflows, integrations, event-driven patterns, data pipelines.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve platform friction points preventing shipping at speed.
• Champion and implement event-driven architecture patterns across product teams.
• Build tooling and reference implementations to accelerate adoption of Kairos and Nexus.
• Ship a working first version fast, then harden it with monitoring and real usage feedback.
• Coordinate with the NGA architecture team to shape the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
• Translate product pain points into actionable platform feedback and roadmap input.
• Collaborate with customer architects and business stakeholders, delivering deep technical work while communicating trade-offs.
• Support flexible and hybrid work models to accommodate diverse needs and foster collaboration.

Skills

Go

React

Next.js

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Production systems

Tools

Apache Kafka

RedPanda

PostgreSQL

Job description

IFS is seeking a senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform who embeds with product teams to accelerate velocity and enable platform adoption. You will work at the code level to design production-ready solutions on the IFS Cloud platform, implementing event-driven patterns and building reusable tooling.

You will collaborate with the NGA architecture team, translate pain points into roadmap input, and maintain strong ties between R&D and platform consumers.