Forward Deployed Engineer

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• Location: King's Cross, London
• Work model: On-site by default, with some flexibility
• Employment: Full-time
• Compensation:£100,000 - £130,000
• Level: Associate
• Experience: 2-5 years
• Compensation: Top-decile London market compensation
• Equity: Meaningful EMI-eligible equity
• Industry: Enterprise AI / Risk Infrastructure
• Environment: Seed-stage, high-growth startup

• Join a seed-stage company building AI-native risk infrastructure for regulated enterprises
• Work with customers across financial services, regulated technology, and healthcare
• Own enterprise customer relationships from adoption through expansion and renewal
• Operate at the intersection of engineering, product, commercial ownership, and customer strategy
• Work directly with senior stakeholders including CSOs, VPs of Risk, and Heads of Compliance
• Partner closely with the CTO and influence both the product roadmap and company direction
• Join a business that reached seven-figure revenue within months of launch

• Own strategic enterprise accounts end-to-end
• Drive customer adoption, expansion, and renewal
• Act as the primary point of accountability for customer outcomes
• Run working sessions with senior enterprise stakeholders
• Define agendas, actions, priorities, and follow-ups
• Configure the platform around complex customer workflows
• Translate customer requirements into prioritized product feedback
• Influence roadmap decisions based on real customer needs
• Manage procurement and security-review conversations
• Support commercial and contract discussions
• Coordinate internal escalations and keep complex accounts moving
• Ship customer-facing fixes and small product features when needed
• Use AI-assisted development tools to move from customer problem to working solution quickly

• 2-5 years of professional experience
• Strong customer-facing or commercial experience
• Evidence of owning meaningful customer outcomes
• Confidence working directly with senior enterprise stakeholders
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to take ownership when a project or customer situation becomes challenging
• Commercial instinct and comfort navigating negotiations
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into practical solutions
• Strong bias toward action and execution
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy
• Interest in becoming increasingly hands-on technically
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving startup environment
• Based in London or able to commute regularly for an on-site role

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• React
• Postgres
• Express
• Azure
• Terraform
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• AI-assisted software development
• Claude Code or similar coding agents
• Full-stack or backend-oriented development
• Ability to understand systems beyond purely front-end implementation

• Strong sense of ownership
• Commercial awareness
• Technical curiosity
• Confidence with customers
• Ability to operate without detailed instructions