notion - Forward Deployed Engineer, Manager -London

• 8+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, customer engineering, software engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role. • 2+ years of experience managing, coaching, or leading engineers responsible for customer-facing technical delivery. • A strong track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing technical teams. • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python, with the technical depth to review production-quality code and guide implementation decisions. • Hands-on experience with APIs, integrations, authentication, data transformation, and production systems. • Experience leading technical discovery, assessing feasibility, identifying risks, scoping work, estimating effort, and translating ambiguous requirements into executable plans. • Strong architectural judgment and debugging skills, with the ability to isolate root causes across code, APIs, permissions, integrations, data quality, automation logic, system limits, and customer-specific environments. • Demonstrated success managing multiple complex customer engagements while maintaining quality, team health, and clear stakeholder communication. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business audiences from practitioners through executive stakeholders. • A customer- and outcomes-oriented approach, with sound judgment about when to standardize, when to customize, and how to manage tradeoffs. • Experience building or scaling a Forward Deployed Engineering, professional services, or customer engineering function in a startup or high-growth environment. • Experience deploying AI agents in complex coding or business workflows. • Experience designing or implementing AI-powered workflows involving MCP, APIs, LLM applications, prompt engineering, retrieval or RAG systems, or workflow orchestration. • Experience with ETL or ELT workflows, schema mapping, validation scripts, and large-scale content or data migration tooling. • Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps or architectural decisions based on customer implementation needs. • Experience supporting pre-sales and early engagement phases, including technical discovery, migration scoping, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, prototypes, and custom scripts. • Experience establishing technical delivery standards, quality review processes, discovery methodologies, or internal engineering tooling from the ground up. • A strong track record of successful enterprise implementations across multiple industries or regions. • By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy https://notion.notion.site/Notion-Global-Recruiting-Privacy-Policy-fc3eb4e829354a26a2bb6fd5e289b550. https://dev.notion.so/a3ce416456924276a59de91bca740028?pvs=21 • You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on. • EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & ACCOMMODATIONS