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Forward Deployed Engineer

neno

Amsterdam
Full-time
5-10 years experience
Hybrid

Work Arrangement

Office Days per Week: 3 days

Key Skills

Accounting
Financial Planning and Analysis
Financial Operations
Customer Discovery
Solution Scoping
Software Engineering
Solutions Engineering
Technical Product Management
API Integration
Data Analysis
Prototyping
Deployment Troubleshooting
TypeScript
Python
Agentic Workflows
Dutch and English Communication

Job Description

Europe’s first full-stack AI financial services company. We combine best-in-class financial technology (banking, payments, invoicing, accounting, payroll and tax) with embedded expert accounting, tax and payroll advisory services. We are the force multiplier. Our system keeps learning from our customers, so every workflow gets faster, more accurate and more automated over time. That saves our customers more than 100 hours a year of admin. Our team is ambitious, unapologetically curious and slightly crazy. We are ex-founders, veteran fintech operators, AI engineers, creatives and corporate finance experts from the Big 4. We take excellence seriously, but we’re anything but boring. We're all pretty crazy. If you thrive in a high-commitment, high-reward culture and want the autonomy to do your best work, this will be the most exciting team you ever join. Neno is backed by AlleyCorp, Firstminute Capital and Motive Partners, along with angels from Hugging Face, Coinbase, Mollie, Juni, Deel and PayPal. Financial Operations You’ll own the technical work with customers from discovery through deployment. You’ll work directly with finance teams to understand where their workflows break down. You’ll explain what we can solve and how long it will take. Then you’ll turn that into a plan our commercial, accounting and engineering teams can deliver. This role sits where three parts of Neno meet: our customers’ finance teams, our in-house accountants, and our engineering team. You are the person who makes sure what we promise is what we build, and that what we build actually works inside the customer’s business. What you’ll do Lead customer discovery. Run workshops with finance, operations and IT teams. Map systems, data flows, controls, manual work and handoffs to find the underlying causes of problems. Design and scope the solution. Explain what we can deliver and what depends on further discovery. Build an implementation blueprint with scope, milestones, estimated timelines, dependencies and acceptance criteria. Plan the work with commercial and accounting. Translate the blueprint into effort estimates and cost drivers so the commercial team can price the work. Partner with the VP of Accounting to plan staffing, specialist input and finance sign-off. Build and deploy. Prototype solutions, write or adapt code and integrations, and deploy skills and artifacts in the customer’s chosen tools and environments. Validate outputs against finance requirements, and support the customer through rollout and handoff. Feed the product. Bring patterns from the field back to the VP Engineering and the product team, so that one-off solutions become reusable parts of the Neno platform. What this role is not This is not a pre-sales role that hands off at signature. It is also not a backend role that never meets a customer. You will be in the room when the problem is defined, and you’ll still be accountable when the solution goes live. The work involves real financial data for real businesses, where a wrong number has consequences. The bar is high and the feedback loop is short. Building a company like Neno is unrealistically ambitious. We celebrate the wins, learn from the losses and never repeat the same mistakes. This is what it takes to win, and we only want to win. What you’ll bring Finance experience. You have hands-on experience in accounting, FP&A or financial operations. You can follow a workflow from source data to a reconciliation, close, report or forecast, and you understand where controls matter. Technical background. You have a background in one of the following: software engineering, solutions engineering with hands-on development technical product management with hands-on implementation You can work with APIs and data, build a prototype and troubleshoot a deployment. Discovery and scoping. You have led customer discovery and turned ambiguous requirements into a scoped plan with credible effort and timeline estimates. Language. You have professional English & Dutch for customer workshops, technical documentation and presentations. Professional Dutch is strongly preferred. What’s your advantage? Customer-facing experience. You have worked directly with SMEs or mid-market finance teams, ideally in a startup or scale-up. Agentic workflow. You have a well-defined agentic workflow (Claude, Cursor or Codex, MCPs, skills, memory management) and can show us how you use it every day. Stack. You have worked with TypeScript or Python. You are familiar with accounting technical stack: accounting stack such as Exact, Visma, Moneybird, Twinfield, NMBRs, WeFact. Self-direction. You scope your own work. You’d rather work on a problem than on a ticket. What we give you 💻 The latest equipment and software licences. 🤠 An incredibly smart, hardworking and humble team that supports your growth. We work a hybrid policy of 3 days a week in the office, though most of us are in 5. 💸 A competitive salary and stock options. 🏝 25 days of annual leave. 🥳 Regular socials and company off-sites in questionably exotic destinations. 🚀 A huge opportunity for growth as you help define how Neno deploys AI-native finance across Europe. What you are signing up for Before applying, think carefully about what you are committing to. Our interview process is demanding because we are looking for the top 1% of candidates. Building Neno means reshaping the future of AI-native financial services. The opportunity is massive, and the road to get there is challenging. You will often have to step out of your comfort zone and take on tasks outside your job spec. Our process We review applications on a rolling basis. If you’re a good fit, we move quickly. Screening interview Case interview: a live discovery and scoping exercise based on a real customer scenario Technical interview Team interview Values interview Offer This role does not offer visa sponsorship.

Core Responsibilities

Lead customer discovery with finance, operations, and IT teams, then scope solutions into implementation plans with timelines, dependencies, estimates, and acceptance criteria. Build and deploy integrations and other solutions, validate them against finance requirements, support rollout, and turn customer insights into reusable product capabilities.

Requirements

Candidates need hands-on experience in accounting, FP&A, or financial operations, along with a technical background that includes practical development or implementation experience. They must be able to lead discovery and scope work, use APIs and data, and communicate professionally in English and Dutch; Dutch is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Latest Equipment and Software Licenses
  • Supportive Team
  • Hybrid Work
  • Competitive Salary
  • Stock Options
  • 25 Days of Annual Leave
  • Company Social Events and Off-Sites
  • Growth Opportunities

About neno

Industry: Financial Services

Company size: 11-50 employees

Neno is an AI-native financial services company built for ambitious businesses. We combine financial technology with embedded accounting, tax and payroll experts to give entrepreneurs everything they need to run their finances, without the admin headache or traditional fees. Behind Neno is a team of AI builders, former founders, fintech operators, and chartered accountants from Deloitte, BDO, EY, and KPMG. We're ambitious, curious and slightly unconventional, and we hate financial admin just as much as you do. We’re building a high-commitment, high-reward culture where exceptional people have the autonomy to do the best work of their careers. Backed by AlleyCorp, firstminute capital, Motive Partners, and angels from Mollie, Juni, PayPal, Coinbase, Deel, Navro and Hugging Face.

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