Forward Deployed Engineer

ENDGAME; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

PTO + holidays

Remote-first

Learning budget

AI tooling

BYOTS

Job summary

ENDGAME, a senior AI-native consulting and product development firm, is hiring for a fully remote role across Europe. You will own the entire lifecycle from analyze to operate, applying systems thinking to model dependencies and make clear engineering decisions to ship software.

You will collaborate with customers and teammates to clarify problems, present designs, and communicate crisply throughout execution.

Qualifications

• Senior-level design and engineering of large-scale solutions.
• Strong experience with Node.js/TypeScript and React/Next.js.
• Experience with data pipelines and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own lifecycle: analyze, design, implement, release, operate.
• Collaborate with customers to clarify problems and present designs.
• Build AI-enabled solutions using generative tools and components.
• Design scalable services, APIs, data pipelines and frontends.
• Document clearly and present to stakeholders.
• Ensure reliability, performance and availability.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

React/Next.js

PostgreSQL

Python

.NET

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Cloudflare Workers

Durable Objects

KV

R2

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Location: Remote - Europe (including the UK)

We're hiring remotely across Europe, including the United Kingdom.

About ENDGAME

ENDGAME is an AI-native consulting and product development firm. Small, senior teams amplified by purpose-built AI tooling deliver strategy and execution in the same hands at software-company economics. We help companies find where AI brings real value, prove it works, and scale the results across the organization.

The Role

You'll own the whole lifecycle, analyze - design - implement - release - operate, applying systems thinking to model dependencies and identify leverage points in the system, making clear engineering decisions to turn ambiguity into shippable software.

You'll collaborate directly with customers, clients, and teammates to clarify problems, present designs and trade-offs in writing and demos, and communicate crisply throughout execution.

What You'll Do

• Build with AI: use generative tools, evals, and our components; contribute new patterns back into our blueprint.
• Engineer solutions and make decisions: evaluate trade-offs, pick patterns, make the architecture designs, develop and commit.
• Pair daily with product and design; turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments.
• Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontends; instrument, observe, and optimize them in prod.
• Own the solution. Reliability, scalability, performance, availability.
• Work directly with the clients: clarify requirements, validate solutions, and close the loop. Fast.
• Document clearly and present effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Senior-level expertise in designing, engineering, and implementing large-scale solutions. Node.js + TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL; Python; .NET or anything else of your taste
• Data and systems fundamentals: schema design, pragmatic caching, event-driven architectures (Kafka/Redis)
• Cloud and edge: AWS or Azure; Cloudflare (Workers/Durable Objects/KV) experience is excellent
• Systems thinking mindset; comfortable writing specs, design docs, ADRs, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to analyze, design, solution, and present
• Experience building internal platforms or templates that speed up other engineers

Typical Stack

• Languages / Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, .NET
• Messaging/Streaming/Workflows: Kafka, Temporal
• Cloud / Edge: GCP, Azure or AWS is OK but our love goes to Cloudflare (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, R2, etc.)
• Infra/Tooling: Docker, GitHub Actions, IaC (Terraform)

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonus where applicable.
• Up to 22 days PTO; public holidays (location-based); high-end laptop + tools; learning budget; extensive AI tooling.
• Remote-first (GMT-1 to GMT+4) with occasional travel.
• BYOTS: bring your own tech stack- sane defaults, strong opinions, low ceremony.