Forward Deployed Engineer - Mainloop

About the role

Mainloop is a new engineering team inside an established international group, based in Barcelona and built from scratch this year. It builds software that automates professional-services work such as forms, approvals, reconciliations and handoffs. The role is for the first half of the work: going into a business, understanding how it really runs, and delivering a working solution in one to two weeks before handing it over and moving on. The team is AI-native, using AI coding agents, and trains engineers on its architecture and patterns.

Key responsibilities

• Visit each project site in person and understand the actual process, including the pain points and current cost.
• Check what already exists in the group's portfolio and use code intelligence to cut a proof of concept from existing code.
• Write the functional architecture and build a working prototype, then present it repeatedly to stakeholders until it reaches MVP.
• Quantify the benefit, decide whether the project is worth automating, and hand over a complete handover pack to a Product Owner and an engineer.
• Use AI coding agents to build, and learn to steer them and judge their output.

Required profile

• Able to architect a project: understand the need, know what the technology can do and the underlying infrastructure.
• Comfortable steering a build and knowing when something is wrong, without needing to hand-write production code.
• Willingness to travel regularly to about fifteen countries, with accommodation and travel paid.
• Relocation support is offered, including flights, first month's accommodation, visa paperwork and a relocation bonus.

What we offer

• No on-call duty, no rota and no pager.
• Healthcare with no premium, no deductible and no network from day one.
• Thirty calendar days of holiday plus fourteen public holidays.
• Training on the team's architecture, patterns and pipeline, and a Mainloop Barcelona certificate after two to three years.