Engineering video
1:29 · 2 October 2026
Small companies and traditional industries are hiring senior-level founding engineers and forward deployed engineers to build software from scratch using AI, combining development with product management and stakeholder collaboration.
Hear it at 0:00 →And the one thing that I want to mention with the is that it made easier to build new software companies. Now, it's going to take some time, but I do you do see a lot of AI founding engineers, a lot of positions where they require someone that's pretty much at a senior level and has a bit of understanding of the product and they're building things from ground up. So what happens is, Big Tech is getting a bit displaced and a lot of the new positions and it's very relevant for senior full stack engineers, will be in traditional industries where you're going to finance or healthcare and you're working almost directly with stakeholders and AI to build something from scratch.
What we see a lot is this position called founding engineer, which is kind of a CTO, founding engineer. And you see a lot of small companies, people that were doing HR or sales, that all of a sudden, they see the opportunity to build their own software and they need a founding engineer, which is someone that kind of does product management and development. And I think there's a lot of opportunities there too.
Now, you need to make sure that you have very sound fundamentals so you deliver with quality because you are the last person something breaks, it will come to you and you need the product skills. So it's a great combination of between product management, moving fast with the AI and traditional full stack engineering. So I think that's a new one. And it's pretty much the same about the what we call the forward deploy engineer, which is the equivalent of founding engineer, but in established company.
where you get in and you're doing a lot of consultancy around the product and then once the solution is defined and you can execute on it with AI.
