Senior - Customer Engineer/Forward Deployed Engineer

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• At FourKites we have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges with real-world impacts. Whether it’s medical supplies from Cardinal Health or groceries for Walmart, the FourKites platform helps customers operate global supply chains that are efficient, agile and sustainable.
• Join a team of curious problem solvers that celebrates differences, leads with empathy and values inclusivity.
• As a Senior Customer Engineer, you own the technical customer relationship end to end. You run discovery independently, design integration and agentic workflow architectures for complex enterprise problems, and deploy solutions live with customers — often before they know exactly how to articulate what they need. You write optimized, production-grade code at speed, grounded in strong data structures and algorithms fundamentals, because compressing the time from customer problem to working solution is how FDE delivers its value. You bring genuine innovation to hard problems — your solutions are technically sound, elegant, and often non-obvious. You are the primary technical contact for 2–4 major enterprise accounts, you mentor FDEs on the team, and you are building the skills that will take you into Staff-level technical leadership.

Who can apply

• 6–9 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful depth in integration engineering, system design, or a customer-facing technical role — what matters is the complexity and ownership of what you have built
• Strong proficiency in Java (required) and one or more of: Python or Ruby - writes clean, production-grade code with test coverage, clear design rationale, and a standard other engineers can follow
• Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms — designs systems that perform at scale, reasons about complexity tradeoffs under pressure, and makes the right architectural call for high-throughput, low-latency integration scenarios
• Strong software design skills — architects integration and AI workflow systems that are modular, resilient, observable, and built to evolve; can articulate the design, defend the tradeoffs, and produce a diagram that makes it legible to others
• Writes optimized code at speed — takes a customer problem from discovery to deployed solution faster than traditional development cycles; the ability to compress the build cycle without compromising quality is what enables customers to move faster
• Innovative problem solver — brings genuine creativity to hard integration and AI workflow challenges; finds approaches that are technically sound, elegant, and often non-obvious; complexity doesn't slow you down, it sharpens your thinking
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration patterns and how to apply them across complex, multi-system — knows when to apply which approach and can justify the tradeoffs
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI workflows end-to-end using LangGraph or equivalent — not configuring templates, architecting systems
• Uses Claude, OpenAI, or equivalent LLMs across the full workflow — requirements documentation, integration design, spec generation, code generation, testing and deployment; treats LLMs as a core engineering capability, not a productivity shortcut
• Proven ability to run technical discovery sessions with enterprise customers independently and translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical specs

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