Forward Deployment Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer in Bengaluru to take technology from prototype to production.

You will work directly with internal stakeholders to understand real-world problems, rapidly build and integrate solutions, and deploy them into production environments. This hands-on role requires operating close to the customer, moving quickly from ambiguity to working software, and taking ownership beyond code.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production applications.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or C#.
• Strong proficiency in AI/ML, GenAI, LLM apps, AI agents and data engineering.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing and modern software practices.
• Understanding of observability, logging, monitoring and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with containers and/or Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with business and product teams to translate problems into technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototype, build and deploy production-quality applications and integrations.
• Own solutions end-to-end from discovery through deployment and adoption.
• Embed with teams and operate close to the problem rather than central engineering.
• Integrate applications with existing platforms, APIs, data sources and enterprise systems.
• Develop reusable components and patterns scalable across teams.
• Work across the full engineering lifecycle including CI/CD and production support.
• Diagnose issues in live environments and collaborate to resolve them.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, platform and infra teams to meet standards.
• Use data, experimentation and user feedback to iterate rapidly and demonstrate impact.
• Identify where emerging technologies, including AI, can solve business problems.
• Document solutions and share learnings for broader adoption.
• Influence engineering practices and contribute to a strong culture.

Skills

Python

Java

TypeScript/JavaScript

Go

C#

AI/GenAI

REST APIs

Cloud

Kubernetes

Git CI/CD

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

This role is for one of our clients
Industry: Banking and Financial Services
Seniority level: Associate level

Min Experience: 2+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

₹20,00,000 - ₹80,00,000 a year

We’re looking for aForward Deployment Engineer to work at the intersection of engineering, product and the business.

As a Forward Deployment Engineer, you will take technology fromprototype to production by working directly with internal stakeholders to understand real-world problems, rapidly build and integrate solutions, and deploy them into production environments.

This is a highly hands‑on engineering role for someone who enjoys operating close to the customer, moving quickly from ambiguity to working software, and taking ownership beyond writing code.

You will partner with product managers, engineers, architects, data specialists and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop solutions, validate them in real environments and scale successful implementations across NatWest.

What you’ll do

• Work directly with business and product teams to understand complex problems and translate them into technical solutions.


• Rapidly prototype, build and deploy production‑quality applications and integrations.


• Own solutions end‑to‑end - from discovery and technical design through development, deployment, adoption and continuous improvement.


• Embed with teams and operate close to the problem rather than working purely as a central engineering function.


• Integrate applications with existing platforms, APIs, data sources and enterprise systems.


• Develop reusable components, services and patterns that can be scaled across teams.


• Work across the full engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and production support.


• Diagnose technical issues in live environments and work collaboratively to resolve them.


• Partner with architecture, security, platform and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.


• Use data, experimentation and user feedback to iterate rapidly and demonstrate measurable impact.


• Help identify where emerging technologies, including AI and GenAI, can solve meaningful business problems.


• Document solutions and share learnings so successful approaches can be adopted more broadly.


• Influence engineering practices and contribute to a strong engineering culture.

What we’re looking for

Engineering

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production applications.


• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such asPython, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or C#.


• Strong proficiency inAI/ML, GenAI, LLM applications, AI agents and Data engineering or analytics


• Experience designing and consumingREST APIs, microservices and distributed systems.


• Experience withcloud technologies, preferably GCP, AWS or Azure.


• Strong understanding of databases, data structures and system integration.


• Experience withGit, CI/CD, automated testing and modern software development practices.


• Understanding of observability, logging, monitoring and production troubleshooting.


• Experience working with containers and/or Kubernetes.

Forward deployment mindset

• Comfortable working with ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into working solutions.


• Able to move quickly betweendiscovery, prototyping and production engineering.


• Strong customer and stakeholder orientation.


• Comfortable working directly with senior business and technical stakeholders.


• Able to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.


• Strong problem‑solving and debugging capability.


• Pragmatic: knows when to build quickly, when to engineer for scale and when to reuse an existing capability.


• Takes ownership for outcomes rather than only technical deliverables.

Advantageous experience

Experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:

• Cloud‑native application development


• API and platform integration


• DevOps / SRE


• Financial services or other highly regulated environments


• Enterprise technology transformation


• Rapid prototyping / innovation engineering

What success looks like

In this role, success isn’t simply measured by the amount of code you write.

You will be successful when you can:

Understand Build Deploy Adopt Scale

• Turn a business problem into a viable technical solution.


• Get a working solution into the hands of users quickly.


• Build trust with stakeholders through technical expertise and delivery.


• Take solutions into production safely and sustainably.


• Demonstrate measurable business or customer impact.


• Turn successful experiments into reusable engineering capabilities.

Why this role is different

The Forward Deployment Engineer operateswhere the problem is, not just where the engineering team sits.

You will have the opportunity to combine the depth of a software engineer with the curiosity of a product thinker and the stakeholder skills of a solutions engineer.

You’ll work on problems where the solution isn’t always known upfront - and you’ll be expected to discover, build and deploy the answer.