Forward-Deployed Software Engineer: Production ML Systems

Encord; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary and equity

London office 4+ days/week

Flexible PTO

Learning & development budget

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Travel opportunities across US, London

Descripción de la vacante

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our engineering team in London. This role is hands-on across the stack, from APIs and data workflows to backend services and product surfaces, with direct engagement with users and their engineering teams.

You'll own deployments end to end, shape architecture under production constraints, and translate customer problems into scalable tooling and product improvements. Autonomy and strong communication are essential.

Formación

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals.
• Experience building production software across the stack, from APIs to backend services and data workflows.
• Strong system design judgment and ability to make architecture decisions for complex software.
• Strong coding skills in a modern language; Python is a plus.
• Experience working directly with users, customers, or external engineering teams is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Design and build production software for complex data, ML, and application environments.
• Own system design decisions for deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, performance, and speed.
• Work directly with customers and their engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems and define the right technical solution.
• Build across the stack from APIs and data workflows to backend systems and product-facing functionality.
• Own deployments from scoping through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Turn recurring customer problems into reusable tooling and product capabilities.
• Debug complex production issues across reliability, performance, and data flow.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Operate with high autonomy and own problems end to end.
• Feed deployment insights back into Product and Engineering and help shape the FDSE function.

Conocimientos

Software engineering

Python

System design

Communication

Customer interaction

Herramientas

APIs

Backend services

Descripción del empleo

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our engineering team in London. This role is hands-on across the stack, from APIs and data workflows to backend services and product surfaces, with direct engagement with users and their engineering teams.

You'll own deployments end to end, shape architecture under production constraints, and translate customer problems into scalable tooling and product improvements. Autonomy and strong communication are essential.