Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Some key info for you about Liberis: 🌱 We were founded in 2007 💰 We have provided over $3bn of funding to small businesses so far 🚀 We have been named in CNBC & Statista Top 150 UK Fintechs for 2025 🌍 We're a global team, with a dynamic presence in 6 key locations around the world 🧠 We're a thriving community of over 290 innovative minds 👩🏾 🤝 👨🏼 We're a vibrant melting pot, celebrating over 27 nationalities in our team 🏢 Our team brings experience from over 740 previous companies, from startups to global giants 🎯 We have just been named as one of FinTech’s Finest 50 by Welcome to the Jungle 💪 We’re proud to be an accredited Real Living Wage employer, ensuring everyone is paid fairly for the great work they do! Our Product & Engineering Team: Liberis is building the embedded finance platform that lets partners around the world offer innovative funding products to their small business customers. We're a growth-stage fintech with teams in London, Nottingham, Atlanta, Stockholm, Munich and Mumbai, and we’re building a global Product, Data & Engineering team that thrives on autonomy, ownership, and is focused on impact! Our teams solve real-world problems for small businesses, shaping products that unlock opportunity at scale. Engineering is going through an AI-first transformation, rethinking how teams are structured and how they ship. It's changing what a small team can do! We empower our teams to make decisions, move fast, and take full responsibility for the solutions they deliver. You’ll join a team where curiosity is encouraged and collaboration across Product, Data, Delivery and Engineering is the norm. The role: As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Liberis, you'll work directly with partners to understand their technical challenges and help them adopt and integrate our product. You'll take problems from an ambiguous brief to a working solution, combining hands-on engineering with technical consultation and partner relationship building. This is a backend-heavy, full-stack engineering role. You'll work directly with partner engineers, contribute code where it unblocks delivery, and work with Product and Engineering to keep integrations reliable and supportable, so partners reach production faster without avoidable bespoke work or operational debt. What you'll get to do: • Work with partners to understand their needs, define technical problems and build solutions that help them adopt Liberis's product. • Own delivery from an initial, open-ended problem through to a working integration or solution. • Write code and work across different languages and technology stacks, adapting to each partner's environment. • Use AI coding tools as part of your engineering workflow, applying your own judgement to their output and limitations. • Build lasting technical relationships with partners, communicating clearly with engineers and senior business stakeholders. • Handle difficult technical conversations, including explaining incidents and their impact with clarity and sound reasoning. • Collaborate with product, engineering and delivery leaders across Liberis The interview process: • Screening call with Chess (Internal Recruiter) (30 mins) • Video interview with the Hiring Manager (1 hour) • Pairing interview with a member of Engineering team (1 hour) • Video interview with the wider Liberis team (1 hour) What we think you'll need: • Proven experience in a Software Engineering role using, Python, TypeScript or C#/.NET, NextJs and GCP. • Experience taking a new product, system or integration from an unclear problem statement to a working solution • Experience working directly with customers or partners to understand their problems and deliver software that meets their needs • Deep API knowle