Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA
n8n · Remote · Germany · Netherlands · Portugal · London Office · Ireland · United Kingdom · Spain ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (EMEA)
- 30-50% travel required
- Senior engineering role
- Equity compensation
- Visa sponsorship (DE)
As the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed with strategic enterprise customers to turn complex environments into production-ready automation success stories. You will design scalable workflows, extend platform capabilities, and create reusable patterns that shape the n8n product roadmap.
Working closely with deployment strategists and product teams, you will solve real customer problems during focused on-site engagements. Your goal is to build solutions that customers can own while feeding technical insights back into the core platform.
What you'll do
- Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused five-day deployment engagements
- Design and build production-grade workflows, integrations, and custom nodes
- Partner with deployment strategists to align technical execution with business goals
- Identify bespoke requirements that should become core product features or improvements
- Document technical gaps and customer context to inform product and engineering teams
- Contribute reusable learnings and integration patterns to internal playbook libraries
- Deliver time-boxed engagements with clear outcomes rather than open-ended services
What you'll need
- Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience in production environments
- Expertise in building integrations, APIs, and automation pipelines
- Ability to create custom nodes and work with authentication patterns and data models
- Comfortable working directly in customer environments with diverse stakeholders
- Skill in translating ambiguous operational problems into clean technical designs
- Willingness to travel approximately 30-50% of the time, primarily across Europe
- Capacity to quickly understand new industries and tech stacks without strict definitions
Nice to have
- Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools
- Experience deploying solutions for strategic enterprise accounts
- Background in building custom nodes, connectors, plugins, or SDKs
- Previous experience in forward deployed or solutions engineering roles
- Track record of turning customer feedback into product roadmap input
Stack
- n8n
- APIs
- Full-stack engineering
- Backend engineering
How you'll work
- Remote-first team working across Europe
- Requires 30-50% travel for on-site customer engagements
- Company language is English
- Visa sponsorship available for Germany only
- Must have existing right to work for other countries
What you get
- Competitive compensation and equity ownership
- 30 days vacation plus public holidays for Europe-based employees
- Annual €1K budget for courses, books, events, or coaching
- $100 monthly stipend to support open source projects
- Health and pension benefits according to local country norms
- Regular team off-sites for bonding and collaboration