- Job title
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- Job location
- GB / IE / CA / US / Remote (GB; IE; CA; US)
- Job description
- ### **You’re customer-obsessed:** You want to live close to real users and real problems. You get energy from turning “this is painful” into “this is fixed.”
* **You’re a builder who ships:** You don’t just advise or prototype. You deliver working solutions that run in production.
* **You thrive in ambiguity:** Early-stage means unclear requirements, moving targets, and learning as we go. You can still make progress fast.
* **You’re relentlessly pragmatic:** You’ll make smart tradeoffs to get value out quickly, then iterate once we know what matters.
* **You’re technical and versatile:** You can jump across codebases, APIs, data, infra, and integrations. Whatever the bottleneck is, you go there.
* **You communicate clearly:** You can translate between customer context and engineering reality without losing nuance (or patience).
* **You’re efficiency-obsessed:** You automate repetitive work, reduce manual steps, and shorten time-to-value for customers.
* **You use AI as leverage:** You use AI tools to speed up debugging, integration work, scripting, docs, and iteration—while owning correctness and security.
### What the job involves
* **Work directly with customers:** Understand their workflows, constraints, and goals. Help them succeed with Alguna, fast.
* **Build forward-deployed solutions:** Ship integrations, custom workflows, data pipelines, and product extensions that unlock customer value.
* **Close the loop back into the product:** Turn repeated customer needs into scalable product improvements and reusable patterns.
* **Be reactive (in a good way):** When something breaks or a customer is blocked, you jump in, triage, fix, and communicate clearly.
* **Own implementations end-to-end (the fun kind):** From “wait, what do you actually need?” → design → build → deploy → monitor → iterate. If it’s flaky at 2am, you’ll care.
* **Create paved paths:** Build templates, tooling, docs, and automation so the next customer goes live faster than the last.
* **Partner cross-functionally:** Work tightly with engineering, product, and customer success to prioritize, scope, and ship.
### What success looks like
* Customers get to value quickly and stick around because things just work
* Repeated customer work turns into reusable, scalable product capabilities
* The team gets faster over time because you remove friction and build “paved roads”
* You reliably take messy real-world problems and turn them into shipped outcomes
