Part 1
- PoC Services

Forward Deployed Engineer

Go into a business that has never been automated, work out how it actually runs, and have something working in front of them in two weeks. Then hand it over properly, and go and do it somewhere else.
- Barcelona
- travels
- Open
- 5 seats
- 1 lead, 4 junior

Apply for Forward Deployed Engineer

What you own
- 01 Understand the process, on site
- 02 Write the functional architecture
- 03 Drive the agentic build to a PoC
- 04 Run the stakeholder loop
- 05 Quantify the benefit — and say no when it is no
- 06 The handover pack

One method, many products

Mainloop is an
engineering company in Barcelona
. We own what we build and we answer to ourselves. You get the interesting part of a new company, with a real customer and real products from day one.

What we build is the software that automates professional-services work — across roughly fifteen countries, for businesses drowning in administration. That is the material: the admin. The forms, the approvals, the reconciliations, the eleven-day handoffs,



the spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every month. We work in two halves.
One half — this half — goes into a business, finds out what really happens there, and builds something fast enough to prove whether it is worth having.
The other half takes what we prove and turns it into something the company depends on.

Most automation teams only have the first half, which is why they end up with a drawer full of demos. Most of the rest only have the second half, which is why they build what somebody remembered to ask for. We are hiring the people for the first half.

We are not only looking for a developer.
We are looking for someone with a consultant's instincts who can build — someone who is more interested in
*why the invoice takes eleven days*
than in which framework we use, and who can then go and build the thing that fixes it.

What the job actually is

A project arrives. It is usually a sentence —
*"our people spend two days a

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Mainloop AI
📍 Barcelona