Forward Deployed Engineer

Software Engineers at V7 ensure that complex operations involving AI – such as applying foundation models like Gemini Pro to enable complex analyses across large financial documents – are performed reliably and efficiently at scale.

The Backend Engineer role holds significant influence, shaping the company’s future in close collaboration with the founders.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will collaborate with sales teams to ensure key V7 customers achieve twice the impact in half the time. You will thrive on understanding technical leaders’ challenges and requirements and delivering complex solutions and POVs. You are a prototyper at heart with a gift for talking to customers, building relationships, and solving technical problems with repeatability.

• Solutions development and presentation:
  You will develop and present workflow implementations within V7 that combine prompt engineering, data ingestion pipelines, and format conversions, solving customer problems in image recognition, document processing, product development, and more. You will present your findings to customers alongside sales.
• Technical integrations:
  Work with our product team to assist with the integration of new models and ML‑Ops tools into V7.
• Marketplace integration:
  Develop and maintain integration into major cloud marketplaces so users can more easily set up V7 on their cloud of choice.
• Time management:
  Multi‑task between up to five simultaneous projects delivered in short time frames. You are a skilled multi‑tasker and familiar with project management tools like Linear.

• Experience delivering Large Language Model projects with customers, including LLM API integration, up‑to‑speed knowledge of foundation models, SFT, prompt engineering, RAG, and/or measuring AI accuracy.
• Two years plus experience in solutions architecture or integrating multiple applications/data streams, or ML development within customer‑facing roles.
• Intermediate experience with Python.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields.
• Solutioning: ability to develop and articulate an AI solution vision to technical and business stakeholders with customers and partners to match value proposition to business needs.
• Thrived in another fast‑paced SaaS startup or scale‑up during a high‑growth phase.
• Preferred: expertise with Lang Chain and similar tools for multimodal AI projects.

• £80‑100k base salary with £25k additional commission.
• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme.
• Private Healthcare via Vitality for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK.
• Pension contribution through Nest.
• £800 Learning and Development budget.
• Apple Mac Book suitable for your role.
• Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via Thanks Ben.
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• 30 days holiday, plus an additional day for every year of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top.
• 4‑day company‑wide and 4‑day departmental retreats in stunning locations.
• Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent.
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year.
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, etc.) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times.