Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will embed with customer engineering teams to deploy Blitzy into complex enterprise environments. You will guide teams through the platform, troubleshoot issues, and work on architecture and priorities to enable independent use.

What you will do

• Deploy Blitzy into complex enterprise environments
• Partner with engineering leaders on sprint planning, architecture reviews, and production deployments
• Build production-quality integrations, services, and extensions using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.x
• Build and evolve REST APIs using a contract-first approach
• Package and deploy containerized services with Docker
• Develop custom solutions, reusable patterns, scripts, and tools
• Debug complex issues spanning customer infrastructure, integrations, and microservices
• Drive successful POCs and technical demonstrations
• Maintain high standards for testing, code quality, performance, and observability
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate field experience into platform improvements

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production code in enterprise environments
• Deep hands-on expertise with Java 17, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Hibernate/JPA, and Actuator
• Strong experience with REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Maven, Docker, and modern testing practices including JUnit 5, Cucumber/Gherkin, and JMeter
• Experience building and operating microservices with CI/CD, cloud architecture, observability, production monitoring, and tools such as Micrometer, Dynatrace, SpotBugs, and SonarQube
• Knowledge of enterprise modernization and distributed systems, including Java 8 to Java 17 upgrades, monolith to microservices migrations, Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, caching, and resilience pattern
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and modern software development practices
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to audiences ranging from interns to CTOs
• Willingness to work in person from Pune, India

Nice to have

• Experience in customer-facing engineering, developer tools, AI/ML, or enterprise modernization
• Technical thought leadership through blogs, talks, or open-source contributions

About the company

Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform that builds custom software to automate the software development life cycle. The company is backed by multiple tier 1 investors.