Job Description

Location: Sydney or Melbourne, Australia

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Competitive Salary + Equity

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AI-Driven Enterprise Software

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About the Opportunity

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We're partnering with a rapidly scaling, VC-backed technology company building AI-powered infrastructure used by some of the world's largest retailers and enterprise organisations.

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Their platform powers millions of customer transactions every month, (B2B) through intelligent software and automation.

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As part of their continued growth across APAC, they are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to work directly with customers, solve complex operational challenges and help shape the future direction of the product.

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This is a highly visible role sitting at the intersection of software engineering, customer engagement, product development and technical leadership.

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The Role

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As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will partner directly with enterprise customers to understand complex business problems and rapidly transform requirements into scalable software solutions.

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You will operate across product, engineering and customer teams, building prototypes, delivering production systems and influencing the evolution of the platform.

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This role is ideal for someone who enjoys ambiguity, thrives in customer-facing environments and loves taking ideas from concept through to deployment.

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Responsibilities

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- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand business and operational challenges
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- Gather, challenge and refine customer requirements
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- Design, build and deploy scalable software solutions
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- Develop prototypes, proof-of-concepts and MVPs to validate ideas quickly
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- Translate customer needs into long-term product capabilities
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- Partner closely with Product,



Engineering and AI teams
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- Build backend services, APIs and cloud-native applications
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- Support customer implementations and high-impact technical initiatives
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- Influence product direction through direct customer engagement and feedback
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- Act as a trusted technical advisor to both customers and internal stakeholders
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About You

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- 8+ years commercial software engineering experience
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- Experience taking products, features or customer solutions from 0 to 1
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- Experience working directly with customers, users or external stakeholders
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- Strong requirements gathering and problem-solving capability
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- Experience building prototypes, MVPs and production-ready software
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- Robust software engineering skills using:
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- Python
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- TypeScript
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- AWS
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- Experience building scalable APIs, backend services and distributed systems
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- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
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- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments
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Highly Desirable

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- Forward Deployed Engineering experience
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- Product Engineering experience
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- Startup or scale-up background
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- Experience deploying AI-enabled or data-driven software products
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Why Join?

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- Build solutions used by global enterprise customers
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- Work on technology powering millions of real-world transactions
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- Collaborate with world-class Product, Engineering and AI teams
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- Influence both product direction and customer outcomes
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- Competitive compensation and equity opportunity
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- Help shape a growing engineering function across APAC
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This is an opportunity for an engineer who enjoys building, solving complex customer problems and having direct influence over how products evolve and deliver value at scale.

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📌 Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Reqiva
📍 New South Wales