Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; onsite at hirify.global offices on Hardman Street or Piccadilly Gardens.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial services company developing technology-driven solutions for the financial industry.

What you will do

• Embed with business and platform stakeholders to scope and execute time-boxed Forward Deployed Engineer engagements with clear entry and exit criteria.
• Design, build, test, secure, and deploy AI-first solutions across data, APIs, backend services, and workflow integrations.
• Run discovery, validate feasibility, create rapid prototypes, and harden successful solutions into scalable production systems.
• Extend reusable platforms, templates, and modules while contributing reusable code and patterns to shared repositories.
• Apply observability, evaluation, testability, security, privacy, and operational-readiness practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Prepare handoff and transition plans, coordinate with architecture, security, compliance, and control stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Hands-on software development experience delivering production systems; financial services or securities industry experience is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of modern AI and agentic application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and agent-based system design.
• Hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, production systems, and secure service integrations.
• Experience working across architecture, data, platform, infrastructure, AI, and workflow layers, including solutions delivered in regulated environments.
• Strong systems thinking, architecture judgment, product and delivery judgment, and practical tradeoff thinking under real constraints.
• Experience balancing delivery speed with governance, security, observability, evaluation, operational rigor, and day-two production ownership.
• Strong software engineering skills in one or more of Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python; familiarity with application frameworks, containerization, reusable platform patterns, internal developer platforms, or productized infrastructure.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, drive discovery with senior stakeholders, coordinate without formal authority, communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, and mentor junior engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on employee growth, innovation, collaboration, and delivery excellence.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, wellbeing programs, and flexible global resources.
• Generous paid leave, including paid volunteer time, supporting employees and their families.
• Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer supporting underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, females, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.