Fis
Forward Deployed Engineer
Overview
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.
About Fis
This role sits within a newly acquired startup building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within the banking group, backed by the resources, scale, and long-term impact of FIS.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 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, SRE principles, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines
- Naturally integrates AI into workflow; stays current on LLM capabilities and agentic development patterns
- 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Software Engineer
- Preference for knowledge of financial transaction flows, core banking systems, or banking technology
Key Responsibilities
- Work with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to understand their landscape, pain points, and modernization goals
- Design the bank's future-state architecture to unlock accelerated innovation
- Become the trusted technical partner for bank engineering and architecture leadership
- Translate patterns, friction points, and unmet needs from bank deployments into product requirements and platform improvements
- Develop proofs of concept and build bank use cases end to end
- Connect upstream and downstream systems with integration patterns that are clean, durable, and production-grade
- Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines connecting the bank's existing systems
- Run performance tests and validate scale, resilience, and failover behavior
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