Forward Deployed Engineer

• You’re a mid-level product engineer who has shipped software that real users rely on. You can take a well-scoped task through to production, working with teammates and asking for support when needed.
• You have a strong passion for agentic product development. You actively experiment with agents and tools, and can explain what you tried, what worked, and what you learned.
• You care about the product outcome. You want to understand the user problem and how your contribution supports the team’s roadmap.
• You bring sound engineering fundamentals: readable code, testing, debugging, code review, and attention to reliability.
• You examine agent output critically and take responsibility for the software you ship.
• You enjoy working alongside others, sharing discoveries, and helping a teammate get past a practical obstacle.
• You’re comfortable learning an unfamiliar codebase and adapting to a team’s working practices.
• When you encounter friction, you investigate it and help implement a solution.

Regarding this opportunity

Our Platform Engineers are building and enhancing the shared Agentic platform for our marketplaces. You bring that platform into everyday product development: working alongside teams, shipping roadmap improvements, and making it easier for others to do the same.

During each engagement, you join one marketplace team for several weeks. You learn their product, understand their priorities, and pick up meaningful work from their backlog. You use the Agentic platform to deliver that work, discovering where it helps and where it needs to improve.

Alongside delivery, you help teammates get started, pair on real tasks, share useful approaches, and contribute improvements to the platform itself. Your feedback comes from the practical experience of getting work into production.

This is a role for a product engineer with a strong interest in agentic development, curiosity about what is possible, and the willingness to roll up their sleeves.

Work with the embedded team to select a meaningful, achievable piece of backlog work. Understand the user problem, contribute to the solution, and take your work through implementation, testing, review, and release.

Use the Agentic platform throughout delivery where it helps. Apply the same engineering judgement and quality standards to agent-generated work as you would to any other contribution.

Make it easier for teammates to use the platform in their own work. Pair on tasks, demonstrate useful workflows, help with setup, and work through obstacles together.

Leave behind working examples and clear guidance that fit the team’s codebase and development practices. The aim is for the team to continue independently after your engagement.

Capture what happens in practice: missing integrations, awkward workflows, unreliable behaviour, gaps in evaluation, or unnecessary manual steps.

Investigate the causes and contribute practical fixes. These could include tooling, integrations, reusable workflows, templates, evaluations, or documentation. Work with the Platform Engineers to review and test changes and make useful improvements available to other teams.

Bring concrete evidence into platform discussions: what the team was trying to achieve, where it got stuck, what you tried, and what changed after a fix.

Help distinguish a local requirement from a shared need. For larger improvements, provide reproducible examples and a clear account of the impact so the Platform Engineers can prioritise effectively.

Build the handover into the engagement. Share knowledge as you work, involve teammates in the approaches you develop, and agree ownership of anything that needs continued attention.