Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in USA

Praxent
Full time
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USA
08/20/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Own technical delivery across discovery, architecture, implementation, production deployment, and post-launch support.
Embed with client engineering and business teams to translate business problems into defensible technical architectures.
Build production full-stack applications and agentic AI systems, including LLM-backed workflows, agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and financial-services integrations.
Design APIs and integration surfaces for legacy, poorly documented, and load-bearing platforms.
Harden prototypes for regulated production environments through security reviews, audit trails, PII handling, and performance testing.
Scope client requests, recommend when to reduce or change scope, and communicate those decisions to stakeholders.
Guide client engineers and leave documented, runnable, and maintainable software behind.
Own difficult production issues in client infrastructure and proactively identify risks.
Create implementation plans, sequence work, and delegate to internal and client-side engineers without direct people-management responsibility.
Travel to client sites 20–30% of the time.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience shipping production full-stack software.
Strong Python experience, with .NET or Node.js accepted as substitutes.
React or Next.js front-end experience.
Experience leading the technical side of a delivery, including owning implementation plans and directing engineers without managing them.
Experience with API design and systems integration, including legacy or poorly documented systems.
Real client-facing delivery experience, including discovery sessions, difficult stakeholders, and independent account delivery.
Production experience with LLMs and agents, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
Ability to work through ambiguity, communicate with both engineers and executives, and make appropriate scope decisions.
Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Willingness to travel to client sites 20–30% of the time.

Benefits

Remote work is available from specified U.S. states, with no international relocation or remote work outside the U.S.
Medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, wellness days, and a wellness program.
IRA retirement plan with an employer match of up to 3% annually.
15 days of PTO, 9 U.S. holidays, 5 sick days, additional PTO accrual over time, and a company closure during the last week of the year.
Paid parental leave.
Healthy work/life balance with an encouraged maximum work week of 40 hours.
Stable company with more than 25 years in business.

Salary: $205k - $250k/yr

Praxent

Praxent is an award-winning AI-native services firm built on 25+ years of financial services experience. We help financial institutions and enterprise fintech providers turn legacy platforms into AI-native competitive advantages. Our forward-deployed fintech engineers deliver the full transformat...

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