Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Quik Hire Staffing
Recruitment Agency
About the job
- Role: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Work Model: Hybrid
- Compensation: £95,000 – £130,000 per year + Bonus & Equity Options About the Role: We are seeking an exceptional Senior Forward Deployed Engineer on behalf of our client, a prominent global food-tech and delivery platform in London. In this hybrid engineering and client-facing leadership role, you will embed with strategic enterprise partners to design, implement, and deploy bespoke integration architectures, high-performance APIs, and custom middleware solutions. Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, code, and deploy custom technical integrations, middleware, and SDKs connecting tier-one enterprise partners with core systems.
- Serve as the primary technical authority during complex enterprise onboarding and high-value commercial partnership implementations.
- Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems integration challenges spanning authentication (OAuth), webhooks, and REST/gRPC APIs.
- Partner closely with core Platform Engineering and Product teams to feed enterprise partner requirements back into the core product roadmap.
- Write clean, robust, and well-tested code in modern programming languages (Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript).
- Deliver comprehensive architectural blueprints, API documentation, and implementation playbooks for partner engineering squads.
- Lead technical incident resolution, debugging sessions, and performance tuning for critical partner pipelines during launch windows. Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on software development or solutions engineering experience building production-grade distributed systems.
- Strong technical mastery in Golang, Java, Python, or TypeScript, with modern cloud architectures (AWS, GCP).
- In-depth expertise in API design, microservices architectures, event brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and data synchronization patterns.
- Outstanding consultative and interpersonal capabilities, comfortable advising enterprise CTOs and lead architects.
- Proven track record deploying complex technical solutions in client-facing or mission-critical enterprise environments.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
- Fluent in English. What the Role Offers: Executive-grade compensation package including performance bonus and equity stock grants. Comprehensive private medical insurance, generous workplace pension contribution, and family leave benefits. Modern hybrid working arrangement with prime central London office space. Opportunity to spearhead game-changing technical integrations with the world's biggest restaurant and retail brands. : Apply Now!
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