Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Engineer embedding within Tier-1 bank clients to architect and build production-grade core banking infrastructure on an AI-enabled autonomous platform.
What you’ll do
- Embed with bank architecture and product teams to understand their landscape and translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Design future-state architectures and build proofs of concept end to end (e.g., digital twins, checking accounts, stablecoin wallets).
- Integrate upstream and downstream systems with clean, durable, production-grade patterns and build high-performance data pipelines.
- Support presales with technical demos, architecture workshops, and platform education for prospective clients.
What you’ll bring
- Proven track record shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages (Rust, Java).
- Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases.
- Strong background in AWS, GCP, or Azure with SRE principles, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role (Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Software Engineer).
Technologies
Go · Rust · Java · Kafka · AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · OpenShift · LLM
About Fidelity National Information Services
FIS provides core banking, payments, and capital-markets technology to banks, insurers, asset managers, and corporates worldwide, powering accounts, lending, treasury, and fund accounting.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
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Job Description This role sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group. The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients as a hands-on engineer — translating modernization ambitions into production software at Tier-1 scale. Operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationship, this role demands someone who can ship code, design integrations, and build lasting trust with bank engineering leadership. This role offers the autonomy and ownership of a startup, combined with the scale and long-term impact of FIS. The team shapes how the world's largest banks adopt next-generation core banking infrastructure — operating with clear accountability, enterprise resources, and direct production responsibility. PS: Candidates located
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Job Description This role sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group. The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients as a hands-on engineer — translating modernization ambitions into production software at Tier-1 scale. Operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationship, this role demands someone who can ship code, design integrations, and build lasting trust with bank engineering leadership. This role offers the autonomy and ownership of a startup, combined with the scale and long-term impact of FIS. The team shapes how the world's largest banks adopt next-generation core banking infrastructure — operating with clear accountability, enterprise resources, and direct production responsibility. PS: Candidates located near our FIS office locations in Jacksonville (FL), Atlanta (GA), Milwaukee (WI) & NYC (NY) will be expected to follow hybrid schedule. What you will be doing: Customer & Discovery Embed and discover: Work with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to understand their landscape, pain points, and modernization goals. Translate business needs into technical requirements. Architect: Design the bank's future-state architecture to unlock accelerated innovation. Build relationships: Be [... source excerpt omitted ...] hitecture leadership. Turn a single deployment into an enterprise story. Feed the product: Translate patterns, friction points, and unmet needs from bank deployments into product requirements and platform improvements. Build & Integration Build: Develop proofs of concept and build bank use cases end to end (e.g., digital twins, checking accounts, stablecoin wallets). Integrate: Connect upstream and downstream systems with integration patterns that are clean, durable, and production-grade. Data: Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines connecting the bank's existing systems. Test and validate: Run performance tests and validate scale, resilience, and failover behavior. [... source excerpt omitted ...] l demos, architecture workshops, and platform education for prospective clients. Travel: Travel to client sites as needed (expect 25–50% depending on engagement phase). Required Qualifications: Systems builder: Proven track record shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages (Rust, Java). Distributed systems: Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases. Cloud infrastructure: Strong background in AWS, GCP, or Azure. SRE principles, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes/OpenShift. Data engineering: Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines. AI-native engineer: N
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