Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Mar 16, 2026. Condukt scores B on the Alion truth index.
About us
Condukt is the next-generation compliance platform for financial services, offering an agentic solution powered by real-time data for business identity.
Always-on and policy-aware, Condukt enables financial institutions and fintechs to gain actionable insights into business verification - unlocking growth, increasing efficiency, and strengthening compliance.
We were founded by former operators and builders with deep experience in banking, payments, and lending. Today, our team spans across London and Porto, bringing together engineers, product owners, and operators from companies like Revolut, Meta, Block (Square), SumUp, American Express, Yandex, and Marshmallow.
Trusted by leading regulated entities, including Wise, Tide, Mollie, Shift4, Flatpay, and myPOS, Condukt is backed by top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and MMC Ventures.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work directly with our customers to design, deploy, and extend mission-critical solutions powered by our platform. As one of the earliest technical interfaces between Condukt and our clients, you’ll help translate complex operational challenges into elegant, scalable implementations, bridging deep technical expertise with hands-on customer collaboration.
This role is ideal for engineers who love solving real customer problems, thrive in ambiguous environments, and enjoy working across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams. You’ll help shape how customers adopt and scale our technology, while influencing our product roadmap through frontline insights.
If you are excited by the idea of building, deploying, and optimizing solutions in partnership with world-class financial institutions and fintechs, this role is for you.
What you'll do
Partner with customers to deeply understand their use cases, data needs, and integrations, and turn those into clear technical plans using Condukt, then guide them through adopting what you build
Drive end-to-end configuration and deployment of our tech, interacting with our products and customer tech stacks via public APIs
Lead the technical design, development, and build of custom tools tailored to specific customer project requirements, to extend our base capabilities and/or interface with external systems to achieve the customer’s goals
Provide expert troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization for deployed solutions to ensure stability and efficiency
Collaborate with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to prioritize feedback, shape product direction, and drive delivery
What you bring
You are an effective and self-driven builder
3+ years of experience in software engineering or technical deployment, including direct customer-facing work
Strong ability to understand customer workflows and translate them into clear product and technical requirements
Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
Expertise in interacting with external systems via public APIs
Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
Hands-on experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, with a solid grasp of data flow, model behavior, and integration patterns
Comfortable turning recurring patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks for others to use
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Fast learner who can adapt to new technologies, product updates, and customer environments
It would be a plus if you have:
Experience deploying or integrating solutions in financial services, fintech, or compliance-heavy domains
Experience supporting enterprise customers or large-scale integrations
Exposure to risk, fraud, underwriting, or KYC/KYB products.
Our Offer
Tackle meaningful problems with real-world impact
Competitive salary and equity package
Join us onsite in our offices in London or Porto (2 days a week)
Flat hierarchy with direct access to the founders
Top-of-the-line equipment
Private health insurance, plus sick and compassionate leave as needed
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].