Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Global Markets

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
107K-143K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology
We provide an internal communications platform to unite companies and their employees behind a common purpose.
The Role
Owns end-to-end delivery of customer-specific Staffbase platform extensions, including technical design, full-stack development, integrations, testing, deployment, and user validation. Partners with customers, Sales, consultants, and internal teams to define requirements and advise on feasibility. Promotes platform-first, secure, reusable solutions, contributes patterns to shared assets and product feedback, maintains engineering quality, participates in on-call support, and mentors less experienced engineers.
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About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers—reaching over 14 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

This is a hands-on technical role within Staffbase Build, responsible for turning specific enterprise customer needs into reliable, scalable extensions of the Staffbase platform, using its extensibility capabilities (widgets, plugins, integrations, and other platform objects). The role owns assigned customer solutions end-to-end, defining the use case with stakeholders, building and testing across the stack, deploying it, and validating it with users.

The aim is to drive adoption and stickiness of the platform, not to create one-off, standalone customer solutions. The role acts as a bridge, helping customers do what they and the platform can't do alone yet, and feeds what's learned back into shared standards and the product roadmap.

The role reports into the regional Build Leader.

What you’ll be doing

Solution Delivery

  • Owning the technical design, implementation, testing, and release of assigned custom solutions end-to-end
  • Building across the stack (customer-facing UI, backend services, and integrations with Staffbase and third-party APIs)

Customer & Stakeholder Collaboration

  • Partnering with customers, consultants and internal teams, e.g. Sales, to define and detail use cases before development. Supporting pre-sales in a technical advisory capacity, primarily during requirements discovery: join customer and Sales conversations to clarify needs, assess technical feasibility, and help scope custom solutions
  • Validating shipped solutions with users and gathering feedback afterward
  • Supporting customers in building basic solutions themselves using Staffbase-provided platform tools where appropriate, rather than defaulting to a fully bespoke build

Platform-First Engineering

  • Keeping up to date with new and evolving platform capabilities (new extensibility primitives, APIs, and platform objects) so solutions are built using the latest native capabilities rather than defaulting to more bespoke patterns
  • Applying the company's architectural, security, and compliance standards so solutions remain supportable

Pattern Capture & Product Feedback

  • Identifying reusable patterns and components arising from customer engagements; documenting and contributing them to a shared Build asset catalogue
  • Surfacing recurring, validated customer needs for consideration in the product roadmap

Craft & Team Contribution

  • Maintaining a strong quality bar (testing, code reviews, healthy CI/CD practices).
  • Participating in the Build on-call rotation to support shipped customer solutions, in line with the applicable regional on-call policy.
  • Helping bring structure and engineering standards to the team, and mentor less experienced engineers

What you need to be successful 

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, building and running production systems
  • Customer-facing technical experience (forward-deployed, solutions engineering, consulting)
  • Strong React, TypeScript/JavaScript and experience in either Go, Java, Kotlin or Node.js on the backend
  • Deep experience designing and integrating REST APIs and third-party systems, as well as testing, assessing and integrating APIs of third-party systems
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences
  • Experience mentoring or guiding less-experienced developers, and a knack for bringing structure to how a team works
  • Comfort working directly with stakeholders — you can translate business needs into technical solutions and validate them afterwards
  • A strong focus on quality, clean code, testing, and continuous learning
  • A self-starter who works well both independently and as part of a team
  • You understand and appreciate diversity and inclusivity in the workplace

What you'll get

  • Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages, including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
  • Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of $2400 
  • Recharge - 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
  • Support - we’re offering an RRSP program with company match and health plans, including dental & vision. Parents can get 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Volunteer Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Staffbase's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $107,000 - $143,000 CAD base salary per year. Other rewards may include commissions and program-specific awards. In addition, Staffbase provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, equity, paid parental leave, an employee growth budget, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, wellness days, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and running production systems
  • Customer-facing technical experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or consulting
  • Strong React experience
  • Strong TypeScript or JavaScript experience
  • Backend experience with Go, Java, Kotlin, or Node.js
  • Deep experience designing and integrating REST APIs and third-party systems
  • Experience testing, assessing, and integrating third-party APIs
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences
  • Experience mentoring or guiding less-experienced developers
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and validate outcomes with stakeholders
  • Strong focus on quality, clean code, testing, and continuous learning
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a self-starter
  • Understanding and appreciation of diversity and inclusivity in the workplace
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The Company
HQ: Chemnitz
315 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Company communicators want a single place where they can reach and engage all employees across every channel. Employees want a simple and user friendly way to connect with their company no matter if they are desk, frontline, remote or distributed workers. We connect companies with their employees through a branded app, desktop browser, email, or chat, with the goal of establishing community and shared purpose at work.

Why Work With Us

We are quickly taking over the Internal Communications industries and have been named the 2021 Global Employee App Choice by ClearBox Consulting. We have a very collaborative international culture that loves to grow together as much as we love to win together! Join our team during these exciting times of a recent merger and our series D!

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