Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

Drive High-Impact Enterprise Deployments

• Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.
• Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions.

Build Production-Grade Automation Solutions

• Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment and scalable beyond the initial use case.
• Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality to unlock high-value enterprise use cases.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize customer value over technical complexity.
• Work across industries and technology stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments.

Bridge Customer Needs with Product and Engineering

• Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a reusable node improvement, product feature, or platform capability.
• Document technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals for Product and Engineering.
• Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.

Turn Customer Learnings into Product and Playbooks

• Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a core product feature and document it clearly for Product.
• Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, and patterns to an internal playbook library.
• Help ensure every engagement makes the next one faster, stronger, and more productized.

Keep Engagements Focused and Scalable

• Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes rather than open-ended professional services work.
• Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.
• Know when to build, simplify, or push back to avoid unnecessary complexity.

Requirements

Must-Haves

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience, including production integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines.
• Experience creating custom nodes, extending integrations, and working with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
• Product-minded technical execution and the ability to distinguish between customer workarounds, reusable node improvements, and product features.
• Confidence working directly in customer environments and building trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to turn messy operational problems into practical technical designs.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to avoid unnecessary complexity.
• Willingness to travel approximately 50–60% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
• Ability to quickly understand new industries, technology stacks, and customer environments.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
• Experience with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
• Experience building custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
• Forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or similar experience at a product-led technical organization.
• Experience turning customer learnings into product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Equity ownership.
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, and public holidays.
• US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, dental and vision coverage, and a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA.
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.