Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Parloa

. Lead, hire, coach, and grow a team of forward-deployed engineers .

Posted 10/18/2026full-timeRemote • Germany, United KingdomSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading and developing engineering teams, managing complex technical projects, and implementing effective capacity planning and risk management strategies. Proficient in backend engineering, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code, with strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

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Team LeadershipBackend EngineeringCapacity PlanningCloud PlatformsRisk Management

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringSystems IntegrationDevOpsData EngineeringTechnical Project DeliveryDesign ReviewDebuggingTechnical Solutions ImplementationPerformance GrowthCustomer-Facing Communication

Soft Skills

CoachingClear CommunicationPrioritizationStakeholder AlignmentFeedback Management

Tools & Technologies

TypescriptNodeJSOpenAIMicrosoft AzureKubernetesDockerTerraformMongoDBMySQLRedis

Industry Keywords

AI/LLM-Powered SystemsForward-Deployed EngineeringSolutions EngineeringInfrastructure-as-CodeEnterprise Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDockerKafkaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsRedisTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, hire, coach, and grow a team of forward-deployed engineers
Set clear expectations and conduct 1:1s, feedback cycles, and performance development
Allocate engineers across parallel strategic projects and manage load and utilization
Anticipate delivery bottlenecks and own capacity planning and staffing
Manage engineering delivery across deployments, including milestones, dependencies, risks, escalations, and stakeholder alignment
Implement time tracking and reporting for effort, progress, and capacity visibility
Provide technical leadership, review designs and code, and unblock high-severity production issues
Build reusable field engineering patterns, playbooks, and standards
Translate recurring customer needs into productization proposals
Partner with Product and Core Engineering to reduce one-off solutions
Collaborate with customer architecture, security, and platform teams to deliver outcomes and build long-term technical trust

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in software engineering, systems integration, DevOps, or data engineering roles with meaningful production responsibility
Proven ability to lead and develop engineers through management, team leadership, coaching, hiring, or performance growth
Demonstrated success delivering complex technical projects in large enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders and constraints
Strong capabilities across backend engineering, APIs, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and databases
Ability to review designs and guide production decisions
Ability to personally own and drive smaller technical workstreams end-to-end
Ability to debug and implement technical solutions when necessary
Strong planning, prioritization, capacity planning, and risk management skills
Customer-facing communication skills with customer engineering teams and senior technical stakeholders
Clear written and verbal communication
Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems is a strong plus, ideally in forward-deployed or solutions engineering environments
Typescript, NodeJS, OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and MCP experience/knowledge

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunities regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background, and other characteristics
GDPR and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information