Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo IT; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stimulating working environment

International mobility

Personalized training

Internal R&D

Knowledge sharing

Career path design

Job summary

PALO IT Singapore is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead AI-native delivery, owning technical direction and project execution for engineering teams. You will embed Gen-E2 practices, drive responsible AI adoption, and partner with clients to shape scalable solutions.

You will mentor engineers, establish best practices, and ensure delivery excellence while guiding strategic technology choices and fostering growth within the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development, with client and team management experience.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Deep full-stack expertise; front-end ReactJS and back-end NodeJS/Java/Python.
• Experience developing scalable, reliable, and secure applications.
• Experience with solution architecture and design patterns.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in daily engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and roadmap for engineering projects.
• Provide full-stack expertise and establish code quality practices.
• Lead technical decision-making and provide thought leadership.
• Mentor engineers and drive delivery excellence with clients and teams.
• Define Gen-E2 practices and ensure responsible AI adoption.
• Collaborate with sales/presales to shape proposals and estimations.
• Recruit and build high-performing engineering teams.

Skills

Hands-on software development

Team management experience

Full-stack development

ReactJS frontend

NodeJS/Java/Python backend

AI tools usage

Communication skills

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Job description

Unlock your future:
your journey starts here!

We are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization.We do the right thing, and we do it right.We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company.

We aresmall enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally: 5 continents, 10 countries, +500 experts from +50 nationalities across the Americas, Europe and APAC

We arerobust and resilient: 100% independent and 0 debt

We areentrepreneurs and passionate experts: We invest in what we believe genuinely and work as a collective intelligence

We arepositive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence

About Gen-e2TM

While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Leveraging our 16 years expertise in digital transformation, our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with a strong collaboration between IA generative and our best Talents:

We now generate 95% of the entire product — code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design powered by GitHub Copilot.

The quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.

A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.

A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability.

With Gen-e2TM, we deliver end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence.

YOUR ROLE

At Palo IT,Forward Deployed Engineers are expected to beAI-Native by defaultand act astechnical authoritiesfor their teams and projects. As aForward Deployed Engineer, you will own the technical direction andproject executionfor engineering teams while actively embedding AI and Generative AI into how teams work by default.

You will lead and manage a team of engineers, providing full-stackexpertise,establishingbest practices, and ensuring delivery excellence. Working closely with clients, project teams, and business stakeholders, you willshepherd technical decision-makingand providethought-leadershipthrough both traditional development practices and AI-augmented workflows.

You will apply Palo IT'sGen-E2methodologyto drive quality, speed, and responsible AI adoption across projects and teams.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery Ownership

• Own the technical direction and roadmap for engineering projects.
• Provide full-stackexpertise to the engineering team andestablishbest practices on code quality and performance.
• Shepherd technical decision-makingprocess andprovidethought-leadership.
• Provide architecture-level and code-level feedback for the engineering team.
• Build confidence in project delivery through automated testing, continuous integration,monitoringand analytics.
• Monitor project progress anddeliveryquality across teams.
• Ensure timelines, outcomes, and engineering standards are met.

AI-Native & Gen-E2 Leadership (Core Expectation)

• Champion AI-Native ways of working across the team, including AI-assisted development, testing, and documentation.
• Define and enforce AI/GenAI best practices, including:
• Prompt and context engineering standards
• Output validation, guardrails, and fallback strategies
• Code review standards for AI-generated code
• Stay current with emerging GenAI trends and tools and translate them into practical, value-driven implementations.
• Act as a technical authority and coach on Gen-E2 practices andresponsibleAI/GenAI adoption.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver high-quality code and projects.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and career development planning for team members.
• Manage performance through clear goalsetting, regular feedback and reviews, and identification of growth opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and learning-driven culture.
• Recruit and build high-performing engineering teams.

Consulting, Clients & Growth

• Collaborate with clients to understand business problems, design solutions, and lead implementation.
• Partner with Sales and Presales teams to shape proposals, solution approaches, and contribute to technical responses and estimations.
• Contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, and frameworks to scale delivery efficiency.
• Support Palo ITthought leadershipthrough research, experimentation, and publication.

Must-Have Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on software developmentexperience includingrecent experiencein client and team management.
• Proven experienceleading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Deep technologicalexpertiseinfullstackdevelopment. Preferred technologies include ReactJS for frontend development and NodeJS/Java/Python for backend development.
• Experience in developing scalable, reliable, and secure applications.
• Experience with solution architecture.
• Strong understanding of common programming patterns and principles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering work (not just theoretical exposure).

AI-Native & Gen-E2 Skills (Required)

• Hands-on, daily use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor or equivalent).
• Strong grasp of prompt and context engineering for engineering workflows.
• Proven experience defining and enforcing GenAI best practices across teams.
• Ability to coach and mentor teams on effective and responsible AI tool usage.
• Critical thinking tovalidateand verify AI-generated code and solutions.

Good to Have

• Experience with any emerging technologies (DecentralisedIdentity, Realtime-cross border payment, Quantum computing, Advanced Smart Contract etc..).
• Experience with AI/ML services and frameworks.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Mobile development experience (Swift for iOS, Android, native or hybrid).
• Certification in Claude AI (Anthropic) is a plus.

What Success Looks Like at Palo IT

• Youlead high-performing, AI-Native teams.
• Youown technical direction and deliver production-grade applications with excellence.
• Youdefine and enforce best practices across teams and projects.
• Yougrow people, platforms, and impact— together.
• You elevate Palo IT's Gen-E2 maturity across teams and clients.

We will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require sponsorship of a visa.

More About PALO IT

We’reeager to adapt to change, learn from ourexperiencesand move to meet our planet’s urgent needs.Wearecontinuouslytaking actionto:

Deliverprojects with a positive impact

Train 100% of our workforce on impact

Achieve B Corp certification among all our offices across the globe

Continuously measure & improve employee happiness

Our clients are amongst the world's most successful companies. We innovate with both established Fortune 1000s, SMEs and start-ups who aim to make an impact, become globalleadersand address the world's most complex challenges.

WhatWeOffer

• Stimulating working environments
• Unique career path
• International mobility
• Internal R&D projects
• Knowledge sharing
• Personalized training

For more on our team culture and benefits, check outour careers page .

PALO IT Singapore is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Palo IT SG does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Protecting your privacy and the security of yourdataare longstanding top priorities for Palo-IT.

Your personaldatawill be processed for the purposes of managing Palo-IT’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.

Please consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personaldataof our candidates. Here you can find how you can request for access, correction and/or withdrawal of your PersonalData.

Why PALO IT?

Personalised Training Allowance

We provide you with the resources and tools to cultivate your knowledge and talents. World-class conferences, certified training courses, or even personal coaching. You'll learn a lot and we will too!

Knowledge Sharing

We organize regular events to share our best practices and know-how. Shine amongst the community and your peers. We love creating a buzz outside of the office.

Your PALO IT journey begins with a pre-defined role and set of responsibilities. With our internal framework, you also get to design your own career path.

Connection & Community

Team Building Retreats

Our trips are a great way to bounce around new ideas, and an even better way to bond and share new experiences.

Stimulating Working Environment

Cool offices, top-notch software and hardware, amazing colleagues and lots of learning lunches. We make Mondays the best day of the week!

Positive Impact Initiatives

Enriching our world and the communities we're part of sits front and centre for us. Check out our B Corp certification journey, WEF New Champion status, and partnerships with local NGOs.

Above all, we are entrepreneurs. We champion fresh ideas and support new projects. If you have an innovative idea, share it. A fair system of promotion and compensation is in place to motivate your initiatives.

International Mobility

Want to spice up your professional life with some adventure? From Paris to Sydney, we have offices across five continents and welcome international relocation.

Internal R&D

We make sure you get the time to nurture your expertise. In between exciting projects, you're free to explore new projects, test tech and build your skillset.

Our happiness manifesto

We've developed a'Happiness Index'for our teams around the world, custom-built to gauge their sentiment, and meet their expectations for happiness in the workplace. Using this tool, we strive to continuously measure and improve our team's happiness.