Forward Deployed Engineer
Whippy
Forward Deployed Engineer
Whippy
AI-powered multi-channel communication platform with automation
Remote, based in Brazil, working with US customers in overlapping hours
Full-time
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
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.
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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
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
Whippy is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to handle business communications across phone, chat, and messaging channels. It offers AI Voice & Chat, Messaging, Business Phones, and Workflow Automations to automatically respond to inquiries, screen job applicants, nurture leads, collect reviews, and help generate revenue. How it works: It combines an all-in-one messaging suite with automation. Teams set up rules and AI handles routine tasks, routes conversations, answers common questions, and performs tasks without people having to do them every time. How it’s different from competitors: Unlike systems that require many separate tools, Whippy provides multiple functions in one system, reducing tool switching and setup. It focuses on automating across all channels to help teams work faster and more consistently. Goal: The aim is to help teams engage customers at scale by automating conversations and workflows, improve efficiency, and grow revenue.
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