# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is to rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

The Forward Deployed Engineer is the primary technical interface with clients, embedding with client engineering teams to design, build, and deliver production-ready implementations of Vault and associated products.

## Duties

### Client Delivery & Embedding

- Embed with client engineering teams on-site and remotely to deliver working implementations of Thought Machine Vault products.

- Own the technical success of assigned client engagements.

- Work closely with client architects, engineers, and programme leads to translate business requirements into technical delivery plans.

- Act as technical point of contact for the client.

### Engineering & Problem Solving

- Write production-quality code in Python/Go to build integrations, tooling, data pipelines, and contribute to core products and extensions.

- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems.

- Design and deliver scalable solutions covering high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and security.

- Contribute to internal tooling, frameworks, and reusable patterns.

### Technical Consulting & Presales

- Support the Commercial team during presales by answering technical questions and demonstrating feasibility.

- Advise clients on best practices for Vault implementation.

### Feedback & Product Improvement

- Serve as the voice of the client internally, channeling technical feedback and feature requests.

- Identify patterns across engagements that can be turned into product improvements.

## Requirements

### Essential

- Strong hands-on experience with Python or Go.

- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments, container orchestration, databases, and messaging systems.

- Practical experience with at least one major cloud provider.

- Demonstrated ability to work directly with external clients in a technical delivery capacity.

- Experience delivering technical projects end-to-end.

### Desirable

- Banking/Financial Services experience.

- Cloud architecture certifications.

## Benefits

- Highly competitive salary

- Bonus incentive

- Healthcare

- 25 days holiday and public holidays

- Competitive maternity and paternity leave

- $1,500 SGD per year flexible spend benefit

- Latest tech

- Talented and experienced team

- Environment encouraging learning and progress

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Linux/Unix
- container orchestration
- databases
- messaging systems
- cloud platforms

### Nice to have
- banking/financial services experience
- cloud architecture certifications

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