Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

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October 17

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Stena Center for Financial Technology

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Fintech • Education • B2B

Stena Center for Financial Technology is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Utah that accelerates financial innovation and inclusion through collaboration between education and industry. It offers students, faculty, and industry partners opportunities for workshops, labs, research, and an annual conference, all aimed at fostering advancements in fintech. The center is backed by the Stena Foundation and focuses on applied learning, knowledge sharing, and entrepreneurship within the fintech ecosystem, preparing students for careers in a rapidly evolving financial services landscape.

2 - 10 employees

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Lead strategic Taktile deployments in production, owning technical delivery across multiple projects. • Apply technical expertise, problem-solving skills and creativity to help organizations address real-world challenges. • Effectively scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers. • Partner with Taktile’s product management team to turn customer needs into actionable product insights. • Scale the forward deployed engineering function by creating reusable resources and best practices. • Actively coach and mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work. • Strong technical background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science. • Ability to write and review production-grade code using Python and SQL. • Strong understanding of REST APIs. • Excellent problem-solving skills and decision-making ability under pressure. • Strong relationship-building skills with technical and business stakeholders. • Creative and proactive in delivering value. • Collaborative with peers in product teams, engineers and GTM team. • Humble and possess a growth mindset with a willingness to learn new skills and methodologies. • Excellent written and spoken English.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. • Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company. • Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. • Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. • Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package. • Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes. • Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.