Boston•Pennsylvania•New York•Massachusetts•New Jersey
Remote
Senior
Full Time
forward_deployed_engineerenterprise_deploymentworkflow_automationcustomer_facingtravel_required
Requirements
- •Strong engineering background with solid full-stack or backend engineering experience
- •Experience building integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments
- •Integration-building expertise including creating custom nodes, extending existing integrations, working with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems
- •Product-minded technical execution to distinguish between one-off customer workarounds, reusable node improvements, and product features
- •Customer-facing confidence to work directly in customer environments and build trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders
- •Solution design skills to turn messy operational problems into clean, practical technical designs
- •Strong technical judgment to know when to build, push back, and avoid gold-plating
- •Willingness to travel roughly 50-60% of the time for on-site engagements primarily across Europe
- •Ability to quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments
What You'll Do
- •Drive high-impact enterprise deployments by embedding on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements
- •Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals
- •Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions
- •Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment and scalable beyond the initial use case
- •Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed to unlock high-value enterprise use cases
- •Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize real customer value over technical complexity
- •Work across industries and tech stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments
- •Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a reusable node improvement, product feature, or platform capability
- •Create a clear feedback loop with Product and Engineering by documenting technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals
- •Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library
- •Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a core product feature and document it clearly for Product
- •Help ensure every engagement makes the next one faster, stronger, and more productized
- •Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes
- •Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves
- •Know when to build, when to simplify, and when to push back to avoid unnecessary complexity
Nice to Have
- •Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools
- •Enterprise deployment experience with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments
- •Experience building custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks
- •Experience in forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar roles at product-led technical organizations
- •Experience turning customer learnings into product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications
Benefits
- •Competitive compensation
- •Equity ownership in the company
- •Work/life balance with 30 days vacation plus public holidays in Europe and 20 vacation days plus 8 sick days plus public holidays in the US
- •Health and wellness benefits according to local norms in Europe and multiple medical plans including dental and vision in the US
- •Pension contributions in Europe and 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match in the US
- •Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance in the US
- •€1K per year for courses, books, events, or coaching for career growth
- •Regular hackathons for team engagement
- •Remote-first work culture with regular off-sites for team bonding
- •$100 per month to support open source projects
- •Transparency about company work and performance
About n8n
N8n is a workflow automation tool that integrates AI capabilities with business process automation.
Berlin, Germany
100 - 250
AI & Machine Learning