Forward Deployed Engineer

Endgame; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

Equity where applicable

Up to 22 days PTO; holidays; learning

Fully remote from EU/UK/US; occasional

BYOTS: bring your own tech stack

Job summary

ENDGAME is an AI-native consulting and product development firm. You will 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 will collaborate directly with customers, clients, and teammates to clarify problems, present designs and trade-offs in writing and demos, and communicate crisply throughout execution.

Qualifications

• Senior-level expertise in designing, engineering, and implementing large-scale solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience building internal platforms or templates.

Responsibilities

• Build with AI: use generative tools, evals, and components.
• Engineer solutions and make decisions: evaluate trade-offs, pick patterns, design architectures.
• Pair daily with product and design; turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments.
• Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontends; instrument, observe, and optimize in prod.
• Own the solution: reliability, scalability, performance, availability.
• Work directly with clients to clarify requirements, validate solutions, and close the loop quickly.
• Document clearly and present effectively to stakeholders.

Tools

Node.js + TypeScript

React/Next.js

PostgreSQL

Python

Kafka/Redis

Cloud: AWS/Azure

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Cloudflare Workers

Job description

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
• Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Airflow
• 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; equity where applicable.
• Up to 22 days PTO; public holidays (location-based); high-end laptop + tools; learning budget; extensive AI tooling.
• Fully remote from the EU, the UK or the US, with occasional travel.
• BYOTS: bring your own tech stack, sane defaults, strong opinions, low ceremony.

The Process

1. Getting to know each other (30m)
2. Technical discussion (45m)
3. System design challenge (60-90m)
4. Offer

No leetcode. No trivia.

FAQ

• Remote? Yes, fully remote from anywhere in the EU, the UK or the US.
• Visa? Case by case.
• Tech stack? Whatever works; we prefer JS/TS + Python (see stack above). .NET or Ruby sometimes happens.
• AI tools? Extensively.
• Work-life? Work hard. Rest well. No weekends unless prod is on fire.
• Growth path? Build products Lead practices Build the company.
• Who shouldn’t apply? Process evangelists, architecture astronauts, meeting enthusiasts, or anyone needing constant supervision.

Equal Opportunity

We're an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate only on the ability to ship great software.