Forward Deployed Engineer II (Bulgaria)

The role

This person will design, architect, and deliver tailored production-grade solutions for complex customer needs. They will identify technical problems, scope solutions, and build tools or internal systems to solve them.

What you will do

• Own the design, architecture, and delivery of tailored, production-grade solutions
• Identify potential blockers before they occur
• Build tools and internal systems for the wider team
• Manage tradeoffs between engineering effort and business outcomes
• Turn one-off fixes into reusable infrastructure and repeatable deployment patterns
• Make architectural decisions regarding reliability, scalability, and security
• Create playbooks and documentation for efficient deployments
• Mentor and uplevel other engineers through code reviews and guidance

Required qualifications

• At least 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency with ReactJS and TypeScript
• Deep understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), data modeling, and system design
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), deployment pipelines, and production operations at scale
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end in ambiguous environments
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising engineering practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Innate curiosity
• Heavy and critical use of AI as a tool
• Ability to create work rather than wait for it
• Ability to identify when a problem is not an engineering problem

Nice to have

• Experience architecting and delivering production systems for LLMs or other AI-powered products in real-world, customer-facing environments
• Background in building or contributing to component libraries, design systems, or reusable deployment frameworks
• Proven experience with performance optimization and scaling of full-stack applications

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary & equity
• 25 paid days off
• Additional health insurance
• 610 EUR/ annual stipend for learning and development opportunities
• Up to 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI works with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations and publish benchmarks.