Founding Engineer / Forward Deployed / Golang

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC

Herndon (VA)

Hybrid

USD 190,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus eligible

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Software Engineer in Herndon, VA. This hybrid, full-time role sits between the engineering team and customers, engaging directly to understand environments and production challenges, then designing and building the required features.

You will own solutions end-to-end—from initial conversations to production—working across backend, cloud infrastructure, and customer deployments using Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and

Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience.
Strong backend development experience with Go and/or Python.
Production experience with Kubernetes and AWS.
Experience building and deploying distributed systems.
Experience owning software from development through production.
Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
Ability to gather technical requirements and turn them into scalable software.
Comfortable troubleshooting complex production environments.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customers to understand their technical environments and challenges.
Design and build functionality to solve customer problems from initial conversations through production.
Own solutions end-to-end across backend, cloud infrastructure, and deployments.
Provide technical leadership and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

7+ years

Backend Go/Python

Kubernetes/AWS

Distributed systems

Owns software from dev to prod

Customer-facing skills

Requirements gathering

Production troubleshooting

Tools

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

An early-stage AI company in Herndon, VA is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Software Engineer for a full-time position. This is a hybrid opportunity requiring three days per week onsite. You’ll work across backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and customer deployments using Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and PostgreSQL.

This role sits directly between the engineering team and the customers using the platform. Rather than simply handing requirements to another team, you’ll work with customers to understand their technical environments and production challenges, then design and build the functionality needed to solve them. You’ll remain a core product engineer while getting direct exposure to how sophisticated organizations are actually deploying AI in production. It’s a great fit for an engineer who enjoys ambiguous problems, customer interaction, and owning solutions from the initial conversation through production.

Required Skills & Experience