Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Moderne; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance, including dental and optical

Job summary

Moderne, located in Miami, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to act as a strategic technical advisor and primary bridge between enterprise customers and the Moderne platform. This role involves driving code modernization initiatives while working closely with various engineering teams to integrate AI-driven development practices.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience, a deep understanding of Java, and a solid background in managing enterprise software relationships. Various perks, including stock options and health insurance, are provided.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development or related fields.
• Comfortable developing enterprise software.
• Deep understanding of Java and its ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own post-sales technical execution for enterprise accounts.
• Partner with customer stakeholders for modernization initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance on the Moderne ecosystem.

Skills

Software development experience

Solutions Architecture

Agentic development workflows

Java and JVM understanding

Build system experience

Customer relationship management

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Maven

Gradle

Job description

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer: part hands‑on practitioner, part strategic advisor, fully embedded in the customer's engineering reality. This is not a support role. You will sit inside enterprise engineering organizations, drive adoption of automated code transformation, and help teams navigate the intersection of large‑scale codebase modernization and AI‑assisted development.

The Forward Deployed Engineering model, increasingly adopted across the AI software industry, puts technical talent directly at the point of customer value delivery. That's exactly what this role does. You will be the primary technical bridge between our enterprise customers and the Moderne platform, working alongside Platform Engineering leads and our Customer Success team to plan and execute mass‑scale code modernization, write custom OpenRewrite recipes, and help organizations understand and evolve their codebases at a pace that matches modern AI‑driven development cycles

Responsibilities

Strategic Technical Advisory

• Own the post‑sales technical execution with a portfolio of enterprise accounts, acting as their advocate and OpenRewrite subject matter expert.
• Partner with customer stakeholders, from VPs of Engineering to Principal Architects, to plan and automate large modernization initiatives such as upgrading Spring Boot across thousands of microservices, eliminating OWASP vulnerabilities, or migrating applications off legacy platforms.
• Enable customers to better understand their code at scale through existing and custom recipes, and help them position Moderne as foundational infrastructure for AI coding agents operating across their repositories.

Hands‑On Engineering and Enablement

• Provide expert guidance on the Moderne ecosystem, build tools, and CI/CD integration.
• Assist customers in developing, testing, and deploying custom OpenRewrite recipes to solve organization‑specific code patterns.
• Troubleshoot complex integration issues involving the Moderne CLI, private artifact repositories, and enterprise build pipelines.
• Help engineering teams understand how automated transformation fits into their broader agentic development workflows, including AI coding assistants, agent‑based pull request automation, and LLM‑driven code generation at scale using our suite of Agent Tools (Trigrep search, Prethink context, MCP, OpenRewrite recipes as tools, and future innovations).
• Lead customer enablement and education initiatives, often involving presenting and demoing to large audiences.
• Support and enable contributions from customers and the wider OSS community to expand recipe coverage.
• Identify patterns emerging from AI‑generated code that create new modernization and remediation needs, and help translate those patterns into durable, reusable recipes.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of experience in software development or a hands‑on Solutions Architecture, technical account management, or software consulting role
• Must be comfortable developing enterprise software
• Familiarity with agentic development workflows: AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), LLM‑based code generation, or agent frameworks operating on codebases
• Deep understanding of Java, the JVM, and its ecosystem, including dependency management in Maven and Gradle or other supported languages and ecosystems such as .NET and Python
• Experience with enterprise build systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus)
• Proven track record managing relationships with large enterprise customers, with the ability to navigate complex political and technical environments
• Mindset for troubleshooting build failures and static analysis edge cases
• Ability to pass background checks required by our clients for system access (education, criminal history, drug testing, etc.)

Preferred

• OpenRewrite experience: familiarity with the OpenRewrite project, Lossless Semantic Trees (LSTs), or writing recipes Static analysis experience: SAST tools (SonarQube, Checkmarx) or other code analysis platforms
• Application security vulnerability detection and remediation tools and methodologies
• Previous experience leading or participating in large‑scale migration projects (e.g., Java 8 to 17 migrations)

Why Moderne

Moderne is the Agent Tools company that provides deterministic, governed infrastructure for AI coding agents operating across enterprise software systems. Moderne helps organizations scale AI‑driven engineering with organization‑wide intelligence and governed execution, continuously improving software quality while maximizing the value of their AI investments. Based in Miami, Moderne investors include Acrew Capital, Intel Capital, True Ventures, Mango Capital, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Morgan Stanley Ventures, Amex Ventures, and TIAA Ventures.

Interested?

Email your resume and a brief introduction to [e-mail],we’d love to hear from you.

• Stock options: Substantially more potential upside than established companies can offer
• Health insurance, including dental and optical