Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Q2

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Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
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Full-time
Posted
49 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

The Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer joins the team to partner with large, complex financial institution customers. This role involves embedding with enterprise clients during discovery, design, and go-live phases to translate regulatory, security, and business requirements into high-quality technical implementations. You will design and build secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines while contributing production-grade code and reusable components. Key responsibilities include performing architecture reviews, conducting risk assessments, and troubleshooting issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers. You must navigate regulated environments to solve critical business problems while ensuring solutions meet performance, resiliency, auditability, and availability standards. The role requires expertise in SOC 2, PCI, FFIEC, and GLBA compliance to deliver scalable product enhancements for regulated financial entities.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Embed with enterprise financial institution customers during discovery, design, implementation, and go-live.
  • 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 across deployments and convert them into scalable product enhancements.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, data, and security layers.
  • Develop reusable reference architectures and deployment patterns for regulated environments.

What we're looking for

  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
  • Must be fluent in written and oral communication in English.
  • Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 12 years of related experience.
  • Alternatively, requires an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent related work experience.
  • Must be able to travel to customer sites approximately 40% to 50% of the time.
  • Must be able to translate regulatory, security, compliance, and business requirements into technical designs and deployment plans.
  • Must be able to design and build secure integrations using APIs, event-driven systems, and data pipelines.
  • Must be able to contribute production-grade code and reusable components that evolve into core product capabilities.

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