Forward Deployed Engineer (Brazil)

Whippy
Latin America
Remote

Who this role is best for

Candidates with enterprise integration experience and a backend engineering background will find this high-ownership role in Latin America, working with US customers, particularly appealing.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 2+ years in customer-facing engineering or technical consulting roles
    — “2+ years in software engineering, technical consulting, or a customer-facing engineering role”
  • Individuals who have experience integrating third-party systems in production environments
    — “Experience integrating third-party systems or working with external APIs in production”
  • Engineers comfortable with distributed systems and asynchronous workflows
    — “Understanding of distributed systems concepts such as idempotency, retries, async processing, and error handling”

Things to consider

  • Must be available for overlapping hours with US customers despite remote work in Brazil
    — “Remote, based in Brazil, working with US customers in overlapping hours”
  • Role demands ownership mindset and ability to work with ambiguity
    — “Ownership mindset and comfort operating with ambiguity”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with designing reusable platform capabilities from customer-specific needs
    — “Convert customer-specific requirements into reusable platform capabilities”
  • Emphasize past work with enterprise systems and internal tooling development
    — “Identify repeated patterns and convert one-off implementations into reusable connectors or internal tooling”
  • Showcase ability to debug complex production issues independently
    — “Debug and resolve non-trivial production issues across webhooks, async workflows, and external APIs”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • End-to-end delivery of production integrations
  • Resolution of production issues
  • Development of reusable platform capabilities
Typical background
Software engineeringTechnical consulting

Skills & requirements

Required

Backend DevelopmentAPI IntegrationDistributed SystemsProduction DebuggingTechnical Design

Preferred

TelephonyEvent-driven SystemsWebhook-based ArchitecturesAI Workflows

Stack & domain

Software EngineeringTechnical ConsultingCustomer-facing EngineeringApisRelational DatabasesTelephonyEvent-driven SystemsWebhook-based ArchitecturesAI WorkflowsAutomation SystemsLLM IntegrationsCommunicationOwnership MindsetCRMATSInternal Enterprise SystemsAI AgentsInbound CallsQualification FlowsOnboarding ProcessesSupport QueriesOperational Tasks

About the role

Original posting from Whippy via Ashby

Remote, based in Brazil, working with US customers in overlapping hours

Full-time

OVERVIEW

Experience Required: 2+ years in software engineering, technical consulting, or a customer-facing engineering role

Education: Degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

ABOUT WHIPPY

Whippy is an AI-powered enterprise contact centre that automates real business workflows across voice, SMS, chat, and APIs.

We integrate with telephony providers, CRMs, ATS platforms, and internal enterprise systems to power AI agents that handle inbound calls, qualification flows, onboarding processes, support queries, and operational tasks.

THE ROLE

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed directly into enterprise deployments and own the technical delivery of integrations between Whippy and customer systems.

You will operate at the intersection of APIs, telephony, databases, and AI workflows. You will design and ship production-grade systems, debug live issues, and convert customer-specific requirements into reusable platform capabilities.

This is a high-ownership role. You will work closely with customers, product, and core engineering to ensure deployments are robust, scalable, and repeatable.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Own end-to-end delivery of production integrations across CRM, ATS, telephony, and internal systems
  • Design and implement reliable data flows between Whippy and external platforms
  • Handle authentication, rate limits, retries, and failure modes in distributed systems
  • Debug and resolve non-trivial production issues across webhooks, async workflows, and external APIs
  • Improve logging, monitoring, and observability of deployment pipelines
  • Translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear technical designs
  • Identify repeated patterns and convert one-off implementations into reusable connectors or internal tooling
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to push field learnings back into the platform

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • 2+ years of experience in software engineering or technical consulting
  • Strong backend fundamentals and comfort working with APIs and relational databases such as Postgres
  • Experience integrating third-party systems or working with external APIs in production
  • Understanding of distributed systems concepts such as idempotency, retries, async processing, and error handling
  • Experience debugging production systems under time pressure
  • Clear, structured communicator able to explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ownership mindset and comfort operating with ambiguity

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience with telephony, event-driven systems, or webhook-based architectures
  • Exposure to AI workflows, automation systems, or LLM integrations
  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers, e.g in consulting, banking or equivalent

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Within 90 days, you will:

  • Own at least one enterprise deployment end-to-end
  • Resolve a meaningful production issue independently
  • Ship at least one reusable improvement that reduces future deployment effort
  • Demonstrate strong judgment around scope, trade-offs, and customer impact

Source: Whippy careers (Ashby)

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