Germany•Netherlands•Portugal•London Office•Ireland•United Kingdom•Spain
Remote
Senior
Full Time
forward_deployed_engineerenterprise_deploymentworkflow_automationintegration_developmentcustomer_facingtravel_required
Requirements
- •Strong engineering background with solid full-stack or backend engineering experience and building integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments
- •Integration-building expertise including creating custom nodes, extending existing integrations, and working confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems
- •Product-minded technical execution to distinguish between one-off customer workaround, reusable node improvement, and product feature worth escalating
- •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 solutions
- •Willingness to travel roughly 50-60% of the time for on-site engagements primarily across Europe
- •Speed to productive by quickly understanding new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments without needing everything to be neatly defined
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, rather than open-ended professional services work
- •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
- •Workflow automation experience with n8n or similar workflow automation tools
- •Enterprise deployment experience with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments
- •Node or connector development experience including building custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks
- •Forward deployed experience in solutions engineering or similar roles at product-led technical organizations
- •Product feedback experience helping turn customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications
Benefits
- •Competitive compensation
- •Equity ownership
- •Work/life balance with 30 days vacation plus public holidays in Europe and 20 vacation days plus 8 sick days plus public holidays in US
- •Health and wellness benefits according to local country norms in Europe and multiple medical, dental, vision plans in US
- •Future planning with pension contributions in Europe and 401(k) with 4% employer match in US
- •Financial security with benefits according to local norms in Europe and company-paid disability and life insurance in US
- •Career growth with €1K per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
- •Passionate team with regular hackathons
- •Remote-first work across Europe with regular off-sites
- •Giving back with $100 per month to support open source projects
- •Unlimited AI budget to explore and use AI tools
- •Transparency about company work and status
About n8n
N8n is a workflow automation tool that integrates AI capabilities with business process automation.
Berlin, Germany
100 - 250
AI & Machine Learning