Hybrid Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

at Stena Center for Financial Technology

• Job title: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $175,000 - $240,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Lead complex deployments as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for Taktile. Transform customer engagement through technical expertise and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Taktile deployments in production.
• Apply your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and creativity to help organizations address real-world challenges.
• You effectively scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers.
• Partner with Taktile’s product management team to turn your understanding of customer needs into actionable product insights.
• Develop reusable resources, best practices, and tools to share your expertise and help scale the forward deployed engineering function.

Requirements

• You bring 3-5 years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• You have strong technical background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• You can write and review production-grade code using Python and SQL.
• You possess a strong understanding of REST APIs.
• You excel at breaking down complex problems and making quick, well-informed decisions even under pressure.
• You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels.
• You are creative and proactive, always seeking new ways to deliver value.
• You are collaborative and work well with your peers in product teams, engineers and GTM team.
• You have excellent written and spoken English.
• You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week.

Benefits

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow.
• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company.
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
• Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.