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Forward Deployed Engineer - Spanish

Remote, European Union·Full-time·Added 6 days ago (last checked 26 Oct)

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Our summary

Salary: €65,000 - €95,000 a year
About €3,720 - €5,100 a month after tax, or €3,800 - €5,700 under the Beckham regime.
Work mode: Remote (European Union)
Contract: Full-time
Spanish: Native level
English: Required

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Skills

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Requirements

What we're looking for

• Solid coding skills: you can implement independently, not just configure
• Strong understanding of AI systems and LLMs (prompting, tool-use, RAG, failure modes)
• Workflow thinking: translate complex processes into robust, testable flows
• Experience with APIs, webhooks, auth, and common integration patterns
• Cloud fundamentals: deployments, observability, debugging in production
• Highly pragmatic working style: ship fast, make it stable, iterate
• Bonus: Voice/Telephony, n8n, TypeScript/Python, SQL, monitoring/tracing, GDPR
• Spanish at native or near-native level + solid English

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

• Competitive salary: €60,000-€95,000 per year
• 100% Focus Time (no regular meetings)
• Unlimited budget when the ROI is right
• Extreme speed (we ship almost daily)
• Thousands of enthusiastic customers building the product together with us

Hiring Process

25 min intro
30 min deep dive with CTO & Co-Founder Matthias
20 min culture fit with one of our founders

The role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer for our for our Spanish market, you work directly at the intersection of product and customer setups. You capture requirements, translate them into robust implementations, and take fonio live at customers - including integrations, automations, and ongoing optimization.

You work closely with Product/Engineering and Go-to-Market, making sure deployments are fast, stable, and repeatable across the Spanish market.

What you'll do

• Capture customer requirements and translate them into concrete implementation plans
• Build and roll out fonio setups in production: workflows, logic, prompts, guardrails
• Implement integrations with third-party systems (APIs, webhooks, CRM, calendar, ticketing, etc.)
• Develop smaller features and glue code to cleanly map customer cases
• Debug under production conditions: calls, flows, edge cases, fast fixes
• Build reusable templates and deployment playbooks to make setups scalable
• Deliver product feedback: bring pain points and feature gaps to the team, prioritized and concrete

Additional information

We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10,000+ customers.

Additional information

Fonio is Europe's market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now we're expanding globally and into new products.
We move fast, take ownership, give direct feedback, and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings.
Join one of Europe's fastest-growing companies.

About fonio

Fonio is a technology company that provides a customer service and support platform for modern businesses. The company offers a suite of tools designed to streamline customer interactions, automate workflows, and improve team collaboration. Fonio is a relatively small, venture-backed startup operating in the customer service software space, competing with larger, established players in the market.

Fonio has its Spanish headquarters in Barcelona, which serves as its main operational hub for the Spanish market. The company is actively hiring international professionals, particularly those with Italian, French, and German language skills, to support its expansion into new European markets. This makes it a relevant employer for international professionals looking to relocate to Spain, offering a multicultural and dynamic work environment.

Founded: 2021
Employees: 11–50
Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain
In Spain: Barcelona

Good to know if you are moving

Fonio's team is international, with colleagues from various European countries, making it a multicultural environment.
The company's working language is English, but it is actively hiring for Italian, French, and German-speaking markets, which is a plus for multilingual professionals.
The company is a startup, offering the opportunity to have a high impact on its growth and development.
The company offers a remote-friendly work culture, allowing for flexibility in location.
The company is focused on the European market, making it a good fit for professionals looking to work in a fast-paced, international environment.

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