Founding Solutions Engineer — Enterprise Deployments Lead

NxT Level; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NxT Level is seeking a Founding Solutions Engineer to own technical onboarding and deployment for enterprise customers in New York. You will collaborate with banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and client teams to ensure a successful production rollout.

This deeply technical, customer‑facing role requires hands‑on integration work, security configuration, and data mapping across APIs, FIX, SFTP, and other formats. Travel to client sites will be periodic.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering or technical consulting in customer‑facing roles.
• Strong foundation across distributed systems, APIs, data models, authentication, networking, and cloud applications.
• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting integrations between enterprise systems.
• Hands‑on experience with REST APIs, webhooks, structured data formats, and data transformation or mapping.
• Familiarity with enterprise authentication and authorization technologies such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and Single Sign‑On.
• Ability to independently investigate issues using logs, API requests, network traces, application configuration, and diagnostic tools.
• Ability to write code or scripts when needed; Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript preferred.
• Strong project ownership with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Strong judgment and problem‑solving skills in ambiguous environments.
• Customer‑first mindset with strong engineering discipline.
• Comfort working with sophisticated enterprise customers and navigating complex financial institutions.
• Willingness to work in person from the NYC office and travel periodically to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments end-to-end, from discovery and solution design through configuration, testing, launch, and adoption.
• Lead technical onboarding for sophisticated financial institutions.
• Design and implement integrations across APIs, FIX connectivity, SFTP, file feeds, and other enterprise data exchange patterns.
• Configure enterprise identity and access systems, including SSO, authentication, authorization, and credential workflows.
• Troubleshoot technologies such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth, certificates, and enterprise identity providers.
• Map complex trading workflows and client‑specific data models into the platform.
• Work with structured financial data across APIs, FIX messages, JSON, XML, CSV, and other formats.
• Validate data accuracy, client schemas, business rules, and platform representation.
• Diagnose technical issues across application behavior, authentication, networking, connectivity, data, configuration, and client infrastructure.
• Write scripts or lightweight tools when needed to solve customer problems.
• Coordinate testing, certification, migration, go‑live, and post‑launch activities.
• Build trusted relationships with client engineering, security, operations, and business teams.
• Act as a direct feedback loop between customers and product/engineering.
• Create documentation, integration patterns, tooling, automation, and reusable onboarding playbooks.
• Help every customer deployment become faster, cleaner, and more repeatable than the last.

Skills

REST APIs

Integrations

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

SAML/OIDC/OAuth

SFTP

Troubleshooting

Data mapping

Customer communication

Project ownership

Tools

SQL

JSON/XML/CSV

Job description

NxT Level is seeking a Founding Solutions Engineer to own technical onboarding and deployment for enterprise customers in New York. You will collaborate with banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and client teams to ensure a successful production rollout.

This deeply technical, customer‑facing role requires hands‑on integration work, security configuration, and data mapping across APIs, FIX, SFTP, and other formats. Travel to client sites will be periodic.