# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [n8n](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/n8n)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Skills:** n8n, APIs, Backend Engineering, Full-Stack Engineering, Workflow Automation, Custom Nodes, Api Authentication, Data Models, Event-Driven Systems, Integrations, SDKs, Plugins, Automation Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> The Forward Deployed Engineer delivers production automation workflows, integrations, and custom nodes for strategic enterprise customers while turning deployment learnings into reusable product improvements. The role requires strong backend or full-stack engineering, solution design, customer-facing communication, and substantial travel.

## Job Description

## 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.

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