Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

About the Role

We are looking for a high-impact Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. You will work directly with key enterprise customers to understand complex operational challenges, design pragmatic technical solutions, and rapidly build, deploy, and support production-ready systems.

FDE projects often operate outside the standard product roadmap, with target delivery timelines of four weeks or less. You will independently own solutions across their full lifecycle—from customer discovery and technical architecture to implementation, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support. High-performing solutions may eventually transition into Draiver’s core platform.

Work Model: Hybrid / Remote with customer travel

What You'll Do

• Lead technical discovery, onboarding, and implementation directly with customer engineering, product, operations, and executive teams.
• Translate loosely defined business problems into clear technical architectures and executable solutions.
• Design and build MVPs, automated workflows, API integrations, internal tools, and AI-powered applications.
• Develop solutions using LLM prompting, structured/function calling, agentic workflows, RAG, and custom voice or chat integrations.
• Architect, deploy, and operate serverless and event-driven AWS services, including Lambda, Fargate/ECS, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, S3, and databases.
• Maintain end-to-end ownership of production solutions, including CloudWatch monitoring, alerting, logging, error handling, retries, security, and performance.
• Use modern AI development and coding tools to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and system integration.
• Evaluate whether successful solutions should remain standalone or transition into Draiver’s core platform in partnership with the engineering team.

Technical Background & Capabilities

• Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern full-stack technologies such as TypeScript, React, and Node.js .
• Practical experience designing and deploying AWS-backed applications and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, asynchronous processing, pub/sub messaging, and enterprise system