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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Intercom
London, UK
about 3 hours ago
full-timeR&D

Skills & Technologies

JavaScriptPythonGoRubyRSoftware EngineeringSaaSHelp DeskGTMRoadmapGo-to-MarketStrategyeCommerceSalesCustomer SupportCustomer ServiceIntercomIntegrationImplementationAI

Job Description

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performingAI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.

Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.

What's the opportunity?

Over the past twelve months, we’ve seen rapidly growing demand for Software Engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep technical work, customer impact, and product strategy. As Fin's AI Agent for Customer Service, Fin, becomes mission-critical for our most strategic customers, we’re building a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers to help bridge the gap between customer needs and product innovation.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you’ll work hands-on with some of Fin's most strategic customers, partnering closely with our R&D and Go-to-Market teams to design and deliver high-impact solutions. You’ll go beyond implementation — helping shape product direction, influencing roadmap decisions, and ensuring Fin delivers real, measurable business outcomes in complex, real-world environments.

If you’re excited by ownership, creativity, and solving ambiguous problems, and you want to work at the frontier of applied AI while collaborating with world-class Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, this role offers a rare opportunity to combine technical excellence with real customer impact.

What will I be doing?

Drive adoption of Fin by helping prospects unlock the power of Fin's AI capabilities to automate and scale their support operations

Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements, and provide the insight needed to achieve outstanding results with Fin

Work hands-on with customers’ technical teams as a trusted technical expert, coding side-by-side to drive projects through to completion

Collaborate closely with Sales, Success, and Product teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, successful project delivery, and actionable product feedback

Contribute to the evolution of the Forward Deployed Software Engineering function by codifying best practices and sharing insights from customer engagements to help the team scale and grow

What skills do I need?

Strong engineering background, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering or Physics

Experience building a SaaS product with real-world usage. Bonus points for former founders or early startup engineers

You’re interested in AI/ML and enjoy quickly building a strong understanding of novel problems, capabilities, and architectures — including the trade-offs and limitations involved

You bring strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate organizational boundaries and bring people together to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and for Fin

You’re a strong coder. You have deep knowledge of at least one high-level programming language (for example, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.). It doesn’t need to be a language we use today — great people are effective learners and are quick to pick up new tools or introduce better ways of working

You’re able to prototype and ship software quickly, while maintaining a high bar for quality an

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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)

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