Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will be embedded in customer engineering teams to write code, build tooling, integrations, and configurations to get products into production. You will also ship what you build back into the core product.

What you will do

• Use AI-assisted development for prototyping minimum viable solutions.
• Support Enterprise Sales in technical pre-sales, RFP/RFI, and security questionnaires.
• Own technical delivery of enterprise software from kickoff through production deployment.
• Work with financial institutions to understand business processes and technical environments.
• Configure, deploy, and optimize products based on customer requirements.
• Execute implementation planning, testing, and production deployment.
• Deliver administrator and end-user enablement sessions.
• Integrate with core banking and capital-markets systems.
• Deploy into on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped banking environments.
• Design and implement integrations using required interfaces and data pipeline technologies.

Required qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Technical Consulting, Implementation Engineering, or Enterprise Software De
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language (e.g. Python, Go, Rust).
• Experience implementing and deploying enterprise software solutions within complex customer environments.
• Strong understanding of protocol intermediation, enterprise integration patterns, cloud technologies, security fundamentals and modern software architectures.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers throughout implementation and deployment projects.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Comfortable collaborating across Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Sales, and Consulting teams.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Self-starter with proven ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements.
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations across North America for the US based role.
• Excellent English skills

Nice to have

• Experience working with financial institutions, like private banking, wealth management, custody, payments, treasury, or capital markets.
• Background in Bitcoin, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, or fintech.
• Experience integrating enterprise software using APIs and modern integration frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerized deployments, or infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with Layer-2 technologies and digital asset infrastructure.
• Experience contributing product feedback from customer implementations into engineering roadmaps.

About the company

Blockstream was founded in 2014 and is a market leader in Bitcoin security and Layer-2 technologies. Their products are designed to make financial systems more efficient, secure, and robust.