[Hiring] Senior Forward Deployed Engineer @Praxent

Role Description

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the technical owner of a Praxent engagement. You lead discovery conversations, decide what should be built, and then build it inside a client's environment, from end to end. You set the standard for how the rest of the engineering team builds. You are deep in the code, and you are the person the client and the team look to when the hardest calls have to be made.

What you will own

• The technical execution of the engagement.
• The system gets built, integrated, and shipped to the client's production environment on time and at quality, and you are accountable for how that happens.
• The executive conversation.
• You are a trusted voice with client engineers and a credible one with client executives — translating a VP's problem into an architecture, and that architecture back into language the VP can defend to their board.
• The architecture decisions within the engagement.
• You choose the patterns, integrations, and tradeoffs that fit the client's constraints, and you can defend them to their engineers.
• A team that builds well.
• You guide the Forward Deployed Engineers on the engagement, review their work, and raise their bar without taking the keyboard away from them.
• A system the client can own.
• Production-grade evals, guardrails, observability, and documentation that survive both the handoff and an audit.

How we work

Praxent runs on a spirit of service that our clients feel from the first week. We lead with 'yes, and': we start from the client's goals and shape ourselves around how they actually work, instead of arriving with a fixed playbook.

In financial services, that means treating constraints like compliance, risk reviews, legacy systems, and audit and explainability requirements not as obstacles to route around, but as the design opportunity itself. The strongest forward-deployed work embraces those constraints and is better for them.

You will not do this alone. You will be embedded with our clients, working shoulder to shoulder with Praxent Architects and Product Managers and the client's sharpest engineers and decision-makers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping production software, including hands-on delivery of LLM and agentic systems (RAG, agent frameworks, vector stores, evaluation and monitoring) into real environments.
• Client leadership experience. You’ve led discovery meetings, have made difficult scoping decisions, and can convey an executive presence that inspires confidence in your solutions.
• Hands-on experience shipping production software, full-stack. Most of this work is Python; .NET or Node are fine substitutes, with React or Next.js on the front end.
• Depth across the stack and a major cloud, with the judgment to make sound architecture calls under real constraints.
• Experience integrating AI with legacy and governed systems, and a feel for where those integrations tend to break.
• The ability to lead a small engineering team and to communicate decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience in banking, lending, or payments is strongly preferred, including working directly with risk and compliance partners and getting AI through model-risk or security review in a regulated organization.

Requirements

• Care deeply.
• You never forget who's on the other end of the system — the loan officer, the member, the analyst at 6pm — and you build like their day depends on it.
• Always deliver.
• The engagement's commitments are safe in your hands.
• Never settle.
• You lift the quality of everyone's work, not only your own.
• Do it together.
• You make the client's team and your own team better for having worked with you.
• Own the outcome.
• The result is yours. Not your part of it, not the piece you were assigned — the whole thing.
• Can do.
• You don't wait for conditions to be right. You make them right.

Benefits

• A seat at the frontier, inside an industry that matters.
• Praxent is an Anthropic partner and a Microsoft partner, providing partner-level enablement and direct lines into both ecosystems.
• Twenty-six years of runway with a reputation in financial services that took decades to earn.
• Real time off: 15 days PTO to start and growing every year, 9 US holidays, 5 wellness days, paid parental leave.
• The standard stuff, done right: Medical, dental, vision, disability, accident, a wellness program, and an IRA with up to 3% match.
• A culture people vouch for, recognized by Texas Monthly, Clutch, and Comparably.

Company Description

The US base salary for this full-time position is targeted to be $194,000-$224,000 + benefits. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.