Lead Software Engineer — (SWAT / Forward Deployed Engineering) Team

Senior / Lead Software Engineer — SWAT / Forward Deployed Engineering Team

Overview

Our client, a leading financial services enterprise, is building a SWAT-style Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to address critical technical challenges across Enterprise Platforms and to pioneer AI-assisted software delivery at scale.

This role is not a traditional backend engineering position. We are seeking hands-on engineers who can rapidly onboard onto unfamiliar systems, deliver end-to-end solutions, and leverage modern AI tooling to accelerate development workflows.

Engineers in this team will act as high-impact problem solvers, moving across teams to resolve production issues, implement new functionality, and improve system reliability — often under time pressure and in highly ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly onboard onto unfamiliar codebases, build and run applications locally, and deliver working solutions within tight timelines
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across multiple platform teams
• Own end-to-end delivery of features, including:
• implementation
• testing (integration-level)
• CI/CD pipeline integration
• Work across distributed systems and enterprise-scale microservices architectures
• Use AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code or similar) to:
• generate and iterate on code