Senior Forward Deployment Engineer

About the role

At Luxoft, the project focuses on improving the security, release reliability, maintainability, and operational resilience of business-critical banking applications. Forward Deployed Engineers conduct hands-on engagements with development teams facing challenges with vulnerability remediation, automated testing, legacy technology, production stability, or release cadence. The role combines software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, application security, and legacy modernization. Approximately 70% of the work involves hands-on coding and configuration.

The technical scope includes building automated test suites, remediating security vulnerabilities, performing dependency and reachability analysis, upgrading Java and NPM runtimes, modernizing Spring and legacy middleware applications, improving CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, automating deployments, and introducing observability and resilience patterns. The Expert FDE leads complex engagements, works with development and client stakeholders, defines technical remediation approaches, implements critical changes, and enables client teams to maintain improved engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve testing, security, release, deployment, resilience, and legacy technology issues.
• Review application code, dependencies, test coverage, runtime configurations, deployment processes, logs, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Write, debug, test, review, and enhance production application code and configurations.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, component, regression, and deployment smoke tests.
• Apply Test-Driven Development practices and select appropriate testing approaches, with guidance as needed.
• Source test data and apply masking techniques to protect sensitive information in lower...

Key facts

• Approximately 70% of the work involves hands-on coding and configuration.
• The role includes software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, application security, and legacy modernization.
• The project focuses on business-critical banking applications.

Estimated salary

Estimated salary for software developer in United States: USD 6,050 - 10,500 per month, based on 50 CazVid job posts that state their pay. This is an estimate, not the salary offered.