Frontier Forward Deployed Engineer - Build, Deploy, Deliver

Mbnsolutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 160,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

On-site in London

Up to 25% travel

Job summary

MBN Solutions is partnering with an ambitious startup to build an early Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function in London. You’ll own the journey from initial technical conversations to successful production deployments, writing production code and turning learnings into improvements.

As an early FDE team member, you’ll shape the playbook, the tooling, and engineering practices around customer delivery while collaborating across time zones and with clients.

Qualifications

• Typically three to eight years of demanding software engineering experience.
• Strong algorithmic and logical reasoning.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and solve difficult bugs.
• Experience in customer-facing engineering, deployments and pilots.
• Computer science degree from a leading university or deep coding experience.
• Persistence and ownership to progress through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Technical discovery, pilots, integrations and production rollouts.
• Hands-on debugging and development across complex customer environments.
• Product improvements addressing deployment challenges and benefiting other customers.
• Reusable tooling, documentation and the emerging FDE playbook.
• Multiple customer engagements with careful follow-through for deployments.

Skills

Software engineering

Algorithms

Debugging

Customer-facing engineering

Open-source contributions

Education

Computer science degree

Job description

MBN Solutions is partnering with an ambitious startup to build an early Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function in London. You’ll own the journey from initial technical conversations to successful production deployments, writing production code and turning learnings into improvements.

As an early FDE team member, you’ll shape the playbook, the tooling, and engineering practices around customer delivery while collaborating across time zones and with clients.