Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Q2 India; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Hybrid Work

Flexible Time Off

Career Development

Volunteer Programs

Peer Recognition

Job summary

Q2 seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with major financial institutions, designing, implementing, and deploying secure, scalable solutions in production environments. You will work at the intersection of engineering, product, compliance, and customer delivery, translating regulatory and business needs into high-quality technical implementations.

You will help shape product capabilities and drive deployments, contributing code, architectures, and best practices across regulated

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 8+ years with an advanced degree.
• Fluent written and oral English; authorized to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise financial institution customers during discovery, design, implementation, and go-live.
• Translate regulatory, security, compliance, and business requirements into technical designs and deployment plans.
• Partner with customers to understand operational and strategic business challenges and design solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
• Design and build secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines.
• Contribute production-grade code and reusable components that evolve into core product capabilities.
• Implement solutions that meet performance, resiliency, auditability, and availability standards.
• Serve as technical lead for customer deployments, including architecture reviews and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with product, platform, security, and compliance teams to influence roadmap and prioritize features.
• Identify systemic gaps across deployments and convert them into scalable product enhancements.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, deployment patterns, and best practices for regulated environments.

Skills

Enterprise engagement

API design

Security protocols

Leadership

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

APIs

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Why Join Q2?

Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.

What Makes Q2 Special?

Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways through our year-round Q2 ChangeMakers awards program and global moments of recognition and connection. We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun and giving back together. From company-wide volunteer days to events like our Q2 Homecoming Week—featuring learning, community service, and culture-building experiences—we create opportunities to connect, grow, and make an impact.

SUMMARY

We are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to partner with our largest and most complex financial institution customers. In this role, you will work directly with banks and regulated enterprises to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable solutions in production environments. You will operate at the intersection of engineering, product, compliance, and customer delivery—translating regulatory, security, operational, and business requirements into high-quality technical implementations. Beyond deployments, you will help shape and build product capabilities that solve critical financial institution business problems, ensuring our platform evolves to meet real-world enterprise needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Embed with enterprise financial institution customers during discovery, design, implementation, and go-live
• Translate regulatory, security, compliance, and business requirements (e.g., SOC 2, PCI, FFIEC, GLBA) into technical designs and deployment plans
• Partner with customers to deeply understand their operational and strategic business challenges, and design solutions that drive measurable outcomes
• Design and build secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines
• Contribute production-grade code and reusable components that evolve into core product capabilities
• Implement solutions that meet performance, resiliency, auditability, and availability standards
• Serve as technical lead for customer deployments, including architecture reviews and risk assessments
• Collaborate closely with product, platform, security, and compliance teams to influence roadmap and prioritize features based on customer needs
• Identify systemic gaps across deployments and convert them into scalable product enhancements
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers
• Develop reusable reference architectures, deployment patterns, and best practices for regulated environments

Travel requirement ~ 40/50% to customer sites

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in (relevant degree) and a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience. This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness
• Hybrid Work Opportunities
• Flexible Time Off
• Career Development & Mentoring Programs
• Health & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents
• Community Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs
• Employee Peer Recognition Programs - "You Earned it"

We're proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare—offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being.

Mission

Q2's mission is build strong and diverse communities by strengthening their financial institutions. That mission shapes the technology we build, how we serve our customers, and how we show up for each other.

Vision

We started with a straightforward belief: technology could fundamentally change how financial institutions serve their communities. More than 20 years later, that belief still drives us. Q2 delivers digital banking and lending solutions that help financial institutions deepen relationships, improve experiences, and grow. Across every department and region, Q2 team members bring creativity, collaboration, and purpose to building technology that makes banking stronger, easier, and more human.

Culture & Values

Q2's culture is built by Q2ers and grounded in ten guiding principles that define how we show up for each other, our customers, and our communities. We take our mission seriously. We also have fun doing it. Teams across the company work together to solve hard problems, move quickly, and make a real impact on the financial institutions and communities we serve. We're also helping shape how AI is applied in financial services, bringing the same disciplined, banking-first approach Q2 has practiced for more than 20 years to this next chapter of innovation.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. Applicants in California or Washington State may not be exempt from federal and state overtime requirements.