Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 September 15

🏖️ New Jersey, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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n8n

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

n8n is a secure, AI-native workflow automation platform designed for technical teams. It provides limitless integrations and advanced AI features, allowing users to build autonomous, multi-step agents and workflows. With capabilities for IT, security, and sales operations, n8n can save significant time per workflow run and enrich various business processes using AI. It is available for self-hosting or on the cloud and is popular among developers for its open-source model and the ability to code in JavaScript or Python. n8n is enterprise-ready, offering advanced on-prem or cloud automation solutions, and maintaining mission-critical automations.

📋 Description

• Turn strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories • Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements • Arrive with a hypothesis and leave with production workflows in place • Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities and adoption goals • Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to customer environments • Extend n8n nodes or add missing functionality for enterprise use cases • Translate ambiguous business problems into practical automation designs • Work across industries and technology stacks • Identify bespoke requirements that should become reusable node improvements, product features, or platform capabilities • Document technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals for Product and Engineering • Contribute reusable workflows, custom nodes, integration patterns, and learnings to an internal playbook library • Deliver time-boxed engagements with clear outcomes • Build solutions customers can own and operate themselves • Decide when to build, simplify, or push back to avoid unnecessary complexity

🎯 Requirements

• Solid full-stack or backend engineering experience • Built integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments • Ability to create custom nodes and extend existing integrations • Confidence working with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems • Ability to distinguish one-off workarounds, reusable node improvements, and product features • Comfortable working directly in customer environments with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to turn messy operational problems into practical technical designs • Strong technical judgment and ability to avoid unnecessary complexity • Willingness to travel approximately 50–60% of the time, primarily across Europe • Ability to quickly understand new industries, technology stacks, and customer environments • Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools (nice-to-have) • Enterprise deployment experience (nice-to-have) • Node, connector, plugin, SDK, or reusable integration framework development experience (nice-to-have) • Forward-deployed or solutions engineering experience (nice-to-have) • Product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specification experience (nice-to-have) • Existing right to work in countries other than Germany; n8n can sponsor visas to Germany • English is the company language

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Equity ownership • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with individual and family coverage • US: No-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA • US: Dental and vision coverage • Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance • US: Life insurance • €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching • Regular hackathons • Remote-first work across Europe with regular off-sites • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Transparency

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