Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: United States; candidates near hirify.global offices in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Milwaukee, or New York are expected to follow a hybrid schedule. Travel to client sites is required as needed, typically 25–50% depending on the engagement phase.

Salary: $179,470–$305,100 per year

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company developing an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions.

What you will do

• Embed with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to discover modernization needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Design future-state architectures and build trusted relationships with bank engineering and architecture leadership.
• Develop proofs of concept and end-to-end banking use cases, including digital twins, checking accounts, and stablecoin wallets.
• Build durable integrations, high-performance data pipelines, and distributed systems connecting existing bank platforms.
• Run performance testing and validate scalability, resilience, and failover behavior.
• Support presales through technical demos, architecture workshops, platform education, and client-site engagements.

Requirements

• Proven experience shipping robust, scalable infrastructure using Go or similar systems languages such as Rust or Java.
• Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases.
• Strong background with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including SRE principles, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines, with current knowledge of LLM capabilities and agentic development patterns.
• At least 4 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Software Engineer.
• Ability to switch between coding, architecture design, and leading technical workshops; fintech or banking knowledge is preferred.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of financial transaction flows, core banking systems, or banking technology.
• Experience working in ambiguous environments and creating new engineering playbooks.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy and accountability within a small, senior team.
• Direct production impact on core banking platforms used by global Tier-1 institutions.
• Personal and professional learning opportunities.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits.