Ava Labs
Developer Relations
SeniorForwardDeployedEngineer
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“Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Ava Labs. Skills: Blockchain development, Web3 solutions, Avalanche stack, Enterprise solutions. Own FDE technical delivery. Design architecture across Avalanche stack”
What You'll Achieve.
Produce production-grade output at speed; Inherit more capable platform
Industry & Context.
Pattern abstraction
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Avalanche stack fluency, Hands-on enterprise/on-prem experience, AI-native execution, Translate Director of Engineering requirements, Hands-on depth across Avalanche stack, Client implementation, EVM, Cross-chain messaging, Validator infrastructure, Design and ship solutions at each layer, Leverage modern coding assistants, Leverage agentic tooling, Produce production-grade output, Customer-facing maturity in enterprise/institutional, Represent technical depth to senior engineering stakeholders, Documentation and operational discipline, Close loops, Build runbooks, Maintain tracked artifacts, Pattern abstraction instinct, Recognize bespoke solution generalization, Drive productization
Nice to Have
Direct experience deploying/operating blockchain infrastructure, Prior exposure to financial institution POC/deployment cycles, Familiarity with Avalanche's ecosystem, Familiarity with Avalanche's architecture, Familiarity with Avalanche's institutional positioning, Signals of future people-management trajectory, Past mentorship, End-to-end scope ownership, Comfort representing technical function externally
What You'll Do.
Own FDE technical delivery
Design architecture across Avalanche stack
Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market
Close gap between commercial requirements
Represent Avalanche credibly
Translate bespoke asks into scoped requirements
Heads-down implementation work
Work hands-on across Avalanche stack
Design and implement solutions
Respond to security assessment requests
Respond to technical diligence
Contribute to and maintain developer tooling
Contribute to and maintain SDK surface
Treat tooling work as single loop
Identify when solution should become artifact
Build and maintain runbooks
Build and maintain technical documentation
Build and maintain FDE Protocol Requests database
Shadow and contribute to engagements
Internalize institutional playbook
Take primary FDE ownership
Reduce concentration risk
Operate as credible future #2
Exhibit end-to-end scope ownership
Exhibit comfort representing function externally
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner-facing engineering team; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Technical settings; Senior engineering stakeholders
Full Job Description
Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform. Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world's assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform. We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE) function at Ava Labs. This is a senior individual contributor role sitting within the Platform Engineering Group, reporting to the Head of Forward Deployed Engineering. FDE is a partner-facing engineering team that designs and ships bespoke solutions for a small set of high-profile regulated financial institutions deploying on Avalanche and also owns key portions of the developer tooling and SDK surface that those partners (and the broader ecosystem) build against. The team operates through deep technical engagements, not back-to-back calls: weeks of hands-on engineering between syncs is the norm. The right person brings Avalanche stack fluency, hands-on enterprise/on-prem experience, and AI-native execution, and can translate a Director of Engineering's requ
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