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Forward Deployed Engineer
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About the company
- n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI
- Backed by a community of 650,000+ active developers and builders
- 190K+ GitHub stars, one of the world's Top 40 most popular projects
- $5.2bn valuation, backed by Sequoia and SAP
- Team of 260+ across Europe and the US, centre of gravity in Berlin
Responsibilities
- Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements
- Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities
- Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer's environment
- Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality
- Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs
- Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a reusable node improvement or product feature
- Create a clear feedback loop with Product and Engineering
- Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library
- Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes
- Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves
Requirements
- Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience
- Integration-building expertise: custom nodes, APIs, authentication patterns, data models, event-driven systems
- Product-minded technical execution
- Customer-facing confidence
- Solution design skills
- Strong technical judgment
- Willingness to travel roughly 50-60% of the time, primarily across Europe
- Speed to productive in new industries and tech stacks
Nice-to-haves
- Workflow automation experience with n8n or similar tools
- Enterprise deployment experience
- Node or connector development: custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs
- Forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role experience
- Product feedback experience
Conditions
- Location: Germany
- Travel: 50-60% for on-site engagements across Europe
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