Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Q2

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Location
Austin, TX
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3 days ago
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About Q2

Q2 Holdings is a cloud-based banking software company providing digital banking solutions to banks, credit unions, and alternative financial companies, including consumer and business banking platforms. Industry: Financial Technology & Digital Banking

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you will join a team dedicated to supporting large and complex financial institution customers. You will work at the intersection of engineering, product, compliance, and customer delivery to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable solutions in production environments. Your daily responsibilities include translating regulatory, security, and business requirements into technical designs, building secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines, and developing reusable reference architectures. You will also contribute production-grade code to evolve core product capabilities while troubleshooting issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers. This role focuses on solving critical financial institution business problems within highly regulated environments, ensuring all implementations meet strict performance, resiliency, auditability, and availability standards while navigating complex compliance frameworks like SOC 2, PCI, FFIEC, and GLBA.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $215000 from 45 postings across 23 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Partner with large financial institutions to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable solutions in production environments.
  • Translate regulatory, security, and compliance requirements into technical designs and deployment plans.
  • Design and build secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines.
  • Contribute production-grade code and reusable components that evolve into core product capabilities.
  • Serve as the technical lead for customer deployments, including architecture reviews and risk assessments.
  • Identify systemic gaps in deployments and convert them into scalable product enhancements.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers.
  • Develop reference architectures and deployment patterns specifically for regulated environments.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and minimum of 12 years of related experience.
  • Advanced degree and minimum of 8 years of related experience.
  • Equivalent related work experience is acceptable in lieu of specific degrees or years.
  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
  • Fluent written and oral communication skills in English.
  • Ability to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable solutions in production environments.
  • Experience translating regulatory, security, and compliance requirements into technical designs.
  • Ability to travel approximately 40-50% of the time to customer sites.

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