Forward Deployed Engineer - Data (New York)

About OpenCoreOS

• We're building the first open-source "Thin Ledger", designed to replace legacy core systems with a Golang-based, Protobuf-defined, event-driven platform powered by Kafka, Redis, and multi-region CockroachDB/YugabyteDB.

• Our platform is AI-native from the ground up: autonomous SRE agents, AI-generated runbooks, and everything-as-code—from policies to infrastructure definitions.

• We're mission-critical by default, targeting five-nines uptime and multi-region failover for regulated institutions.

• We work openly and fast, and colocate in Huckletree, Liverpool St, London for in-person collaboration, supported by async-friendly workflows.

What you'll do

• Customer-facing engineer: As part of a forward deployed Pod consisting of business and technical skillsets, act as the customer-facing engineer to translate business needs into software that works in Production at Tier 1 banks

• Architect: Embed within the bank’s architecture and infrastructure teams to design the bank’s future state architecture leveraging OpenCoreOS to unlock accelerated innovation

• Data: Build and maintain high performance data pipelines connecting the bank’s existing systems to OpenCoreOS

• Integration: Integrate OpenCoreOS into customer cloud estates leveraging AI to

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Who you are

• AI-native engineer: Engineer who naturally integrates AI into your workflow using advanced AI tools

• Data engineer: Engineer with experience in data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines with proficiency in Go and Java

• Distributed systems: Experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, message queues, and multi-region databases

• Versatile & resourceful: Natural ability to switch between coding, DevOps, product thinking, communicating and testing

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication

• Fintech experience: Knowledge of financial transaction flows or banking technology

• Strong problem-solver and ownership: Embrace complexity, finding elegant solutions for large-scale, regulated systems and owning outcomes

• Customer-focused: Driven to understand and solve real customer problems

• Security mindset: Understanding of secure coding practices and experience with high compliance systems

Nice to haves

• Compliance: Familiarity with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar frameworks

Why join us?

• Massive impact: Transform how T1 banks handle billions of transactions daily—on a truly open platform.

• High-caliber team: Join a small team of exceptional engineers who value both speed and stability.

• AI-native workspace: Experience an AI-first environment with LLMs integrated into every tool.