WHAT TO EXPECT AS A FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER AT ELASTIC PATH

Elastic Path is redefining what’s possible in digital commerce. Our customers—including some of the world’s most innovative brands like T-Mobile, Comcast, Serena & Lily, and Intuit—rely on us to deliver Composable Commerce solutions that are adaptable, scalable, and built for the future.
We are introducing a new role: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE).
This role is a hybrid of a Professional Services Engineer and Product Engineer. As an FDE, you’ll be the technical partner our customers trust most—embedding with their teams to design and implement solutions—while also contributing back to Elastic Path’s core platform roadmap. You’ll thrive if you enjoy variety, ambiguity, and high-impact problem-solving.
At times, you’ll lean more customer-facing (working closely with business and technical stakeholders to deliver solutions). At other times, you’ll lean more engineering-heavy (designing APIs, building extensions, and upstreaming reusable features into the Elastic Path platform).

COLLABORATION & KNOWLEDGE SHARING

• Share field insights with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap priorities.
• Document best practices and create playbooks for repeatable customer success.
• Mentor peers, customer developers, and junior engineers in both engineering and solution design.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 5+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in Java.
• Solid expertise in RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers in consulting, solutions architecture, or forward deployed engineering contexts.

WHO WE ARE:

Elastic Path is on a mission to break through the barriers that prevent commerce leaders from delivering extraordinary shopping experiences. Today, that means making Composable Commerce accessible to all brands by reducing the cost, time, and overall risk of implementing and managing a multi-vendor approach. With Elastic Path, both business and tech teams are able to innovate on their own terms, fully embrace composability, and in turn, never compromise on what’s possible. Learn more at www.elasticpath.com.