Forward Deployed Engineer (Applications)

Role overview

This position sits at the intersection of engineering and product, serving as the shortest feedback loop in the organization. The mission is to model a new business domain roughly once a month, build a complete application on the internal low-code platform, and then deliberately stress it to surface real weaknesses. The work directly shapes the platform's roadmap, since each app answers a question no roadmap can: does the platform actually hold up for this domain?

Responsibilities

- Design and build full applications across genuinely different domains such as healthcare, commerce, logistics, field operations, and finance, working through AI-native editors and the in-platform app studio - Stress-test multi-tenancy, role-based access control, edge-case state, and integrations (including connectors that return success codes with no data) to find where the platform gives way - File detailed, diagnostic bug reports rather than complaints, each tied to a reproducible issue and a clear direction for the platform team - Produce reference implementations and demos that other developers study and that prospective customers see first - Track recurring pain points across multiple projects and relay those patterns to engineering with enough evidence to drive fixes

Requirements

- At least two years of experience building complete applications end to end, including front end, back end, data modeling, and deployment; agency, freelance, and self-taught backgrounds are welcome - Demonstrated range across more than one business domain, with genuine comfort during the first week of a new one - Strong data modeling skills, since a new domain's model is built roughly every month and the model is where the app lives or dies - Daily fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, including a clear sense of when to stop trusting their output - Working knowledge of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), client-side at minimum - A tester's instinct: the ability to design and execute scenarios that expose failure modes

Nice to have

- Experience presenting applications to non-technical audiences or as customer-facing demos - Background in QA, red-teaming, or chaos engineering practices

Benefits and work setup

- The role opens natural progression paths into platform engineering, solutions leadership as the customer base grows, or product management - Work spans a wide aperture between core engineering and platform users, offering broad exposure across the organization