Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Northslope Technologies

• $120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience, preferably in a client-facing role.
  • Strong skills in Python and/or Typescript, essential for daily development tasks.
  • Experience building applications using large datasets in production.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering real-world outcomes.
  • Ability to work autonomously while effectively collaborating with diverse teams.
  • Willingness to travel for client implementations, typically 10-33% of the time.
  • Excellent communication skills for interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with customers to identify and understand their critical objectives.
  • Design and build efficient, operational workflows based on enterprise data.
  • Iterate quickly on solutions to meet evolving client needs.
  • Transform customer operations by providing powerful software tools.
  • Collaborate with both internal teams and clients to ensure successful project delivery.
  • Utilize structured and unstructured data to derive actionable insights.
  • Engage actively in the customer’s environment, ensuring solutions are tailored.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401k matching to help with future savings.
  • Flexible hybrid work environment promoting work-life balance.
  • Opportunity to directly impact the organization's direction through your contributions.
  • Travel opportunities for company off-sites to connect with colleagues in London and New York.
Full Job Description
The Role

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Northslope, you will be responsible for helping our customers solve their most valuable problems, working closely with stakeholders to conceive, architect, build, and maintain applications that make a measurable impact on their business. Day to day, you'll understand a customer's most critical objectives and build operationalized workflows on their enterprise data that end users actually use to make change within the business. You'll iterate quickly, build from scratch, and help organizations transform their operations at uncommon speed. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you won't just ship code - you'll help reshape how entire organizations work by putting powerful tools in the hands of executives and real operators.

What We're Looking For
  • An obsession with helping your customer win, even when it goes beyond the original "scope". You eat hard customer problems for breakfast and take pride in delivering solutions that actually drive value.
  • Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving aptitude. You love breaking down complex problems and building end-to-end solutions that actually work.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Typescript. We build in these languages everyday.
  • Ability to work independently and own outcomes autonomously. You'll always have support, but we're looking for teammates who want to be in the driver's seat and fully own their work.
  • Demonstrated ability to build applications that use large structured and unstructured datasets in a production environment. We take a customer's data and make it valuable to them - this is our bread and butter.
  • A track record of delivering real-world outcomes with code. As a software engineer, data scientist, or deeply technical analytics lead, you've helped an organization up its game through the software you've written and/or the analytical products you've built.
  • Strong ability to collaborate with internal and external teammates with varying levels of technical proficiency. We embed with our customers and join their teams, you'll need both technical and people skills to succeed.
  • Willingness to travel as-needed for client implementation work. Every project is different, but typically projects involve travel 10-33% of the time.
  • Enthusiasm for working hybrid-in-person at our London or New York hub offices and onsite with our customers.


Preferred but not required to be successful
  • A bachelor's or masters degree in Computer Science
  • Experience with Palantir Foundry and/or AIP
  • Experience delivering production ML and/or LLM-based solutions
  • Experience delivering production frontend applications in React
  • Experience with Spark and distributed compute.


What We Offer
  • Competitive base salary + equity in the form of stock options
  • Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (inclusive of dental and vision) and 401k matching
  • Flexible hybrid work environment
  • The opportunity to build solutions, systems, and software from the ground up as we scale
  • A small, tight-knit team where your contributions directly impacts our ability to execute on our mission
  • Occasional travel (less than 10% of your time) for company offsites where you'll connect with teams across our New York and London hubs

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