Forward Deployed Engineer
aifano GmbH
<h2>The Role</h2><p>You’ll own the whole lifecycle, analyze → design → implement → release → operate, applying systems thinking to model dependencies and identify leverage points in the system, making clear engineering decisions to turn ambiguity into shippable software.</p><p>You’ll collaborate directly with customers, clients, and teammates to clarify problems, present designs and trade-offs in writing and demos, and communicate crisply throughout execution.</p><h2>What You’ll Do</h2><ul><li><p>Build with AI: use generative tools, evals, and our components; contribute new patterns back into our blueprint.</p></li><li><p>Engineer solutions and make decisions: evaluate trade-offs, pick patterns, make the architecture designs, develop and commit.</p></li><li><p>Pair daily with product and design; turn ambiguous problems into shippable increments.</p></li><li><p>Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontends; instrument, observe, and optimize them in prod.</p></li><li><p>Own the solution. Reliability, scalability, performance, availability.</p></li><li><p>Work directly with the clients: clarify requirements, validate solutions, and close the loop. Fast.</p></li><li><p>Document clearly and present effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.</p></li></ul><h2>Required Skills</h2><ul><li><p>Senior-level expertise in designing, engineering, and implementing large-scale solutions. Node.js + TypeScript, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL; Python; Rust or anything else of your taste</p></li><li><p>Data and systems fundamentals: schema design, pragmatic caching, event-driven architectures (Kafka/Redis)</p></li><li><p>Cloud and edge: AWS or Azure; Cloudflare (Workers/Durable Objects/KV) experience is excellent</p></li><li><p>Systems thinking mindset; comfortable writing specs, design docs, ADRs, etc.</p></li><li><p>Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to analyze, design, solution, and present</p></li><li><p>Experience building internal platforms or templates that speed up other engineers</p></li></ul><h2>Typical Stack</h2><ul><li><p>Languages / Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Rust or Ruby</p></li><li><p>Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Airflow</p></li><li><p>Messaging/Streaming/Workflows: Kafka, Temporal</p></li><li><p>Cloud / Edge: GCP, Azure or AWS is OK but our love goes to Cloudflare (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, R2, etc.)</p></li><li><p>Infra/Tooling: Docker, GitHub Actions, IaC (Terraform)</p></li></ul><h2>Perks and Benefits</h2><ul><li><p>Competitive salary + bonus; equity where applicable.</p></li><li><p>Up to 30 days PTO; public holidays (location-based); high-end laptop + tools; learning budget; extensive AI tooling.</p></li><li><p>Fully remote from the EU, the UK or the US, with occasional travel.</p></li></ul><h2>FAQ</h2><p><strong>Remote?</strong></p><p>Yes, fully remote from anywhere in Germany after a successfull onboarding.</p><p><strong>Visa?</strong></p><p>Case by case.</p><p><strong>Tech stack?</strong></p><p>Whatever works; we prefer JS/TS + Python (see stack above). Rust or Ruby sometimes happens.</p><p><strong>AI tools?</strong></p><p>Extensively.</p><p><strong>Work-life?</strong></p><p>Work hard. Rest well. No weekends unless prod is on fire.</p><p><strong>Growth path?</strong></p><p>Build products → Lead practices → Build the company.</p><p><strong>Who shouldn’t apply?</strong></p><p>Process evangelists, architecture astronauts, meeting enthusiasts, or anyone needing constant supervision.</p><h2>Equal Opportunity</h2><p>We’re an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate only on the ability to ship great software.</p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>