Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 August 27

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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FIS

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🤝 B2B

💰 $8G Post IPO debt on 2025-05

Fintech • Banking • B2B

FIS is a global financial technology company that provides payments, banking, asset management and related software and services to financial institutions, merchants and partners. Its technology powers mobile banking, processes payments and asset management transactions (the company cites processing $40 trillion on its asset management technology), accepts hundreds of payment methods across more than 125 countries, and supports banks with risk, compliance and back-office systems. FIS primarily sells enterprise-grade financial technology to other businesses and financial institutions and operates worldwide.

📋 Description

• Embed with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to understand their landscape, pain points, and modernization goals • Translate business needs into technical requirements • Design future-state bank architecture to accelerate innovation • Build trusted relationships with bank engineering and architecture leadership • Translate deployment patterns, friction points, and unmet needs into product requirements and platform improvements • Develop proofs of concept and build bank use cases end to end, including digital twins, checking accounts, and stablecoin wallets • Integrate upstream and downstream systems using clean, durable, production-grade patterns • Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines connecting existing bank systems • Run performance tests and validate scale, resilience, and failover behavior • Support sales with technical demos, architecture workshops, and platform education for prospective clients • Travel to client sites as needed, with expected travel of 25–50% depending on engagement phase • Ship software directly to production environments at enterprise scale

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages such as Rust or Java • Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases • Strong background in AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience with SRE principles, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes/OpenShift • Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines • Ability to integrate AI into workflow and familiarity with current 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 • Knowledge of financial transaction flows, core banking systems, or banking technology preferred • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and create processes where none exist • Ownership of outcomes and production issues • Ability to switch between coding, architecture design, and workshop leadership • Relevant combination of work experience and education • Ability to travel to client sites as needed, approximately 25–50% depending on engagement phase

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities to make an impact in fintech • Personal and professional learning • Inclusive, diverse work environment • Resources to give back to your community • Competitive salary and benefits • Startup autonomy and ownership combined with FIS enterprise resources • Direct production responsibility and enterprise-scale impact