Forward Deployed Software Engineer (EU)

• Collaborate closely with our sales and customer support teams, and play a key role in driving Outset’s EU expansion.
• Interface directly with customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and build specific features to address them.
• Provide pre- and post-sales technical support, ensuring timely resolution of all technical questions and issues.
• Be a key part of the team providing global operational support for the platform.
• Design, develop, and optimize intuitive, user-friendly frontend interfaces using React and Next.js.
• Build robust and responsive components that seamlessly integrate with backend services and APIs.
• Design, develop, and optimize backend services, APIs, and real-time data processing infrastructure.
• Implement and refine our in-house Large Language Model and real-time interview technology.
• Lead customer-facing projects from initial conception through production deployment, ensuring scalability, responsiveness, and reliability.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and supporting production-grade frontend and backend systems.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Experience building scalable, responsive web applications.
• Familiarity integrating frontend applications with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Strong proficiency with Python and Django, including experience building robust APIs.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL databases (Postgres preferred).
• Experience deploying and managing services on AWS.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices.
• Bonus points for familiarity with real-time data visualization, real-time data streaming and export, WebRTC, or AI/ML infrastructure.

Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025-less than six months after our Series A-led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI-moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.