Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, Banking AI Platform

Motion Recruitment; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Stock Options

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is assisting a Tier-1 financial services technology company in Atlanta to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic bank clients, translating modernization goals into production software using Go, Rust, or Java, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

The role combines startup autonomy with enterprise scale, offering ownership, shipping code, and designing integrations across bank architectures; you will engage with bank engineering leadership to

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a technical, customer facing role (Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Software Engineer)
• Proven track record shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages (Rust, Java)
• Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event driven architecture, and multi-region databases
• Strong background in AWS, GCP, or Azure, including SRE principles, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines
• High agency and ownership mindset; thrives in ambiguity and writes the playbook when none exists

Responsibilities

• Embed with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to translate modernization goals into technical requirements
• Design the bank's future-state architecture and make system design decisions to meet non-functional requirements
• Build proofs of concept and end-to-end use cases (e.g., digital twins, checking accounts, stablecoin wallets)
• Integrate upstream and downstream systems using clean, durable, production grade patterns
• Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines, and run performance tests to validate scale, resilience, and failover behavior

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

Kafka

Cloud

Kubernetes

Tools

OpenShift

Job description

Motion Recruitment is assisting a Tier-1 financial services technology company in Atlanta to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds with strategic bank clients, translating modernization goals into production software using Go, Rust, or Java, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

The role combines startup autonomy with enterprise scale, offering ownership, shipping code, and designing integrations across bank architectures; you will engage with bank engineering leadership to