Gen Digital Inc.
Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering
USA - New York, NY · Senior
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About the role
- Its north star is delivering high-quality code that accelerates marketplace revenue.
- This role combines team leadership with hands-on engineering.
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy for demand-side delivery across the partner portfolio, setting standards adopted across FDE and Solutions Engineering.
- Partner with your manager and cross-functional leaders to develop and implement standard operating procedures and delivery practices that help accelerate the team.
- Personally lead the most complex, ambiguous, or new-vertical integrations end to end.
- Turn bespoke builds into repeatable solutions, including shared modules, templates, and runbooks.
- Architect and govern AI-native engineering practices, including code-generation pipelines, mapping automation, test-scaffolding agents, and human-review gates that keep AI-assisted builds safe and production-ready.
- Mentor FDEs through design and code reviews, creating a feedback loop that raises the team's engineering standard.
- Drive structured Product and Engineering feedback loops that reduce future bespoke work and free team capacity for new workstreams.
- Lead technical working sessions with partner engineering teams, bringing experienced hands-on guidance to critical integrations and hosted experiences.
- We're always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate - leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of experience, including time in a senior or staff-level integration, platform, or forward-deployed engineering role.
- People leadership or strong informal team leadership experience is preferred.
Skills
- Write production-quality code in Scala and/or Python, with working comfort in Node.js/TypeScript for SDKs and tooling.
- Bring deep REST/JSON API expertise, including authentication, idempotency, schema evolution, versioning, monitoring, and incident response.
- Personal Attributes:
- Recognize patterns and turn novel solutions into repeatable practices.
- Take ownership of complex, ambiguous work and balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution.
- After you submit your application, you can expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
- Online Technical Test
- Live Coding (Virtual)
- TA Call
- FinalInterview - Hiring Manager (Virtual or face-to-face)
Benefits
- Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives.
- When you're part of Gen, you'll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career - from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs.
- We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team.
Company info
- establishing repeatable delivery standards, governing AI-native engineering practices, owning the highest-stakes partner engagements, and building strong partnerships with internal Product and Engineering teams.
- You'll help shape the FDE team's strategy and best practices, lead the integrations that matter most-including new verticals, non-standard partner APIs, and hosted experiences-and work closely with partner engineering teams, Backend and Frontend Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Product, and commercial stakeholders.
- At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven.
- If this sounds like you, we'd love you to be part of Gen.
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