Forward Deployed Engineer

Feathery

$90K — $110K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineering or Solutions Engineering.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities in workflow automation and data environments.
  • Working knowledge of JavaScript for script writing and troubleshooting.
  • Basic familiarity with Python for API development and debugging.
  • Excellent communication skills for collaboration with both technical and non-technical teams.
  • Ownership of customer implementations from discovery to deployment.
  • Proactive and resourceful in fast-paced startup environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery from discovery through successful deployment and onboarding.
  • Partner with customers to architect, implement, and optimize workflows on the Feathery platform.
  • Guide customers on best practices for building scalable workflow solutions.
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable workflow solutions and build demos.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer lifecycle.
  • Share insights and feature requests to help shape platform evolution.
  • Contribute to creating implementation guides and improving onboarding processes.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Downtown Toronto office location with snacks and lunches.
  • Supportive team culture that values ownership and growth.
  • Company offsite for team building and relaxation.
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a high-ownership role that blends:
  • Customer-facing technical architecture and implementation
  • Technical partnership across the customer lifecycle
  • Workflow design, deployment, and problem solving
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams

As an early member of the Forward Deployed Engineering team, you'll help define how we deliver and scale end-to-end customer implementations-from technical discovery and proof-of-concept through production deployment and long-term adoption.

What You'll Do

Customer Solutions & Implementation
  • Own technical delivery across customer implementations-from technical discovery and proof-of-concept through successful deployment and onboarding
  • Partner with customers to architect, implement, and optimize complex workflows on the Feathery platform
  • Guide customers on best practices for building scalable, maintainable workflow solutions
  • Measure success through successful customer adoption and long-term customer success

Technical Partnership & Solution Design
  • Partner closely with Sales to understand technical requirements and deliver scalable workflow solutions
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable workflow solutions
  • Build demos, prototypes, and implementation examples that showcase Feathery's flexibility and power
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to prospects and customers from evaluation through implementation

Product Feedback & Platform Enablement
  • Share customer implementation insights and feature requests that help shape the evolution of the Feathery platform
  • Create technical content, including implementation guides, documentation, and example applications
  • Help customers and internal teams maximize the capabilities of the Feathery platform
  • Contribute to improving onboarding and implementation best practices

Team & Function Building
  • Help turn successful customer implementations into repeatable playbooks, documentation, and best practices
  • Contribute to hiring and mentoring future team members
  • Improve internal processes, tooling, and implementation playbooks as the team scales


About You
  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role (Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, or similar)
  • Strong problem-solving skills, especially in workflow automation and data-intensive environments
  • Strong working knowledge of JavaScript, including writing and troubleshooting scripts and implementation logic
  • Basic familiarity with Python (able to build/debug APIs)
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
  • Comfortable owning customer implementations from discovery through deployment
  • Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Strong sense of ownership with a focus on delivering exceptional customer outcomes


Bonus
  • Experience with B2B SaaS fintech platform or workflow automation tools
  • Familiarity with low-code/no-code platforms
  • Experience delivering enterprise customer implementations
  • Background in financial services (insurance, wealth management, lending)
  • Experience creating technical documentation, demos, or implementation guides


What We Offer
  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Downtown Toronto office location
  • Office snacks and lunches
  • A supportive, low-ego team that values ownership and growth
  • Company offsite to connect and recharge


If you're excited about helping enterprise customers successfully implement and scale mission-critical workflows - and want to play a key role in shaping the customer experience at a fast-growing startup - we'd love to hear from you.

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