Forward-Deployed Engineer: Cloud, Kafka & FinTech

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

401(k)

Professional Development Opportunities

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help transform banking technology for major financial institutions. This full-time role blends software engineering, solution architecture, cloud technologies, and customer engagement, with hands-on work directly with client stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience and is proficient in Go and Java, with Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and deploying production applications.
• Strong programming experience with Go, Java, or comparable languages.
• Kafka and event-driven architecture experience.
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience designing distributed systems.
• Customer-facing or stakeholder-facing experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• 70% Hands-On Engineering
• 10% Technical Leadership
• 20% Client & Team Collaboration

Skills

Go

Java

Kafka

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Customer-facing

Communication

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help transform banking technology for major financial institutions. This full-time role blends software engineering, solution architecture, cloud technologies, and customer engagement, with hands-on work directly with client stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience and is proficient in Go and Java, with Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.