Forward Deployed Engineer — AI-Native Software Engineer

ABCloudz is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with higher-education customers and turn their business processes into integrations and customizations. The role uses AI agents to build, migrate, maintain, and extend integrations, while the engineer reviews, tests, deploys, and owns the correctness of shipped solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with customer stakeholders to understand how their institution’s business processes actually work, including exceptions, workarounds, and edge cases that may not be captured in formal requirements
• Build new integrations based on that understanding, using AI agents to move from specifications to working solutions that reflect real business needs
• Migrate legacy on-premise business logic, often written in older procedural SQL dialects, into modern cloud-based integration pipelines while understanding why the existing logic works the way it does and preserving the intended business behavior
• Diagnose, maintain, and extend production integrations, including systems with limited or missing documentation where the intended logic must be understood from existing code and data
• Build custom APIs when standard platform APIs don’t fully support the required use case or performance needs
• Own the full delivery cycle: review and refine AI-generated solutions, validate them against technical and business requirements, test, deploy, and communicate the solution to the customer

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience. In exceptional cases we also consider students who can demonstrate these skills through personal projects, hackathons, or internship
• Ability to read and reason through procedural SQL (PL/SQL or similar), write clean SQL yourself, and work comfortably with both Oracle and PostgreSQL
• Hands-on experience consuming APIs and writing JavaScript to manipulate and transform data — you don't need our specific vendor's platform, you'll learn it fast
• Genuine, hands-on fluency with AI agents: building or configuring them, writing and iterating prompts, and orchestrating multi-step workflows. Professional work, personal projects, or hackathons all count. You steer the agent rather than treat it as a black box
• Interest in working with AI agents as your core tool, not a side experiment
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle (requirements → specification → development → testing → deployment → documentation) and clean work in Git with versioned releases
• Confident conversational English — you'll be on calls with customer technical teams
• High energy, genuinely enjoy talking to people and solving problems live, not just heads-down coding
• Willingness to dig into a business process until you understand it well enough to design for it, and to own whether the solution is right — not just whether it runs
• Strong team player — comfortable working in a collaborative environment with a shared backlog and regular syncs, not solo work
• No prior higher-ed, Banner, or Colleague experience required. No enterprise-integration background required