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Forward Deployment Engineer
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Sears
Job Scope
This role will lead the design, build, and scale of the Loyalty Card as a Service (LCAAS) platform with a deep focus on how partners and members engage through AI-powered loyalty, payments, and offer ecosystems.
Job Summary
The FDE will serve as the technical driving force behind our LCCAAS offering, blending hands-on engineering, AI and automation expertise, partner collaboration, and technical leadership. This role ensures LCCAAS is not only delivered successfully but also evolves into a modular, intelligent, and monetizable loyalty platform. By supporting both B2B2C and white-label partner contexts, the FDE will directly impact partner growth, member engagement, and measurable business outcomes.
Reports To
Chief Commercial Officer - SYW
Job Duties / Responsibilities Leads the development and delivery of partner-facing APIs, SDKs, and onboarding toolkits supporting loyalty, payments, and rewards solutions
Builds low-friction integration workflows and scalable toolkits that reduce partner time-to-value
Collaborates with Product, GTM, and Partner teams to align platform deployments with key growth metrics, including adoption, retention, and monetization
Serves as the forward-deployed engineering counterpart in strategic partner engagements, providing regular success reports (uptime, latency, activation time, automation ROI)
Leads the deployment of AI/ML pipelines supporting advanced use cases, including personalized rewards, predictive loyalty scoring, fraud detection, and dynamic offer delivery
Integrates multi-agent orchestration (LangChain, RAG pipelines, vector DBs) into partner workflows and LCAAS APIs
Leverages agentic AI tools to accelerate onboarding, automate data processes, and deliver partner-facing copilots
Develops automation playbooks (CI/CD triggers, auto-scaling, self-healing pipelines) and ensures observability, monitoring, and compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR/CCPA)
Drives the cloud architecture and integration strategy for the LCAAS platform, partnering across teams to optimize scalability, resilience, and cost performance
Drives DevOps adoption by delivering IaC, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management, while ensuring robust observability with monitoring, tracing, and logging
Ensures reliable and compliant system operations by managing API gateways, traffic flows, zero-trust security practices, and disaster recovery measures
Designs modular, future-proof services supporting real-time loyalty events, digital wallets, tokenized payments, and privacy-first data flows
Supports engineers in platform, integration, and AI disciplines through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career development
Promotes a culture of innovation by driving experimentation, rapid feedback cycles, and delivery approaches that prioritize partner needs and outcomes
Contributes to organizational strategy through involvement in planning, goal-setting (OKRs), talent acquisition, and effective resource management
Job Requirements Bachelor's Degree
Over 10 years of related experience
18 years of age or older
Required Skills 12+ years in software engineering; experience in partner-facing or forward-deployed roles
Proven ability to deploy B2B/B2B2C SaaS APIs and platforms in production
Strong experience with cloud-native development (AWS/GCP/Azure), IaC (Terraform/CDK), and CI/CD
Hands-on with AI/LLM frameworks (LangChain, vector DBs, RAG pipelines, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, Bedrock)
Skilled in event-driven architectures and real-time loyalty/payments flows
Deep knowledge of loyalty and rewards systems: earn/burn, tiers, catalogs, predictive scoring
Familiarity with payments, wallets, tokenization, and smart contract-based loyalty models
Understanding of compliance, security, and developer enablement best practices
Clear communicator, able to translate technical deployments into business growth outcomes
Thrives in ambiguous, high-velocity environments with direct partner engagement
Passion for building AI-native partner experiences that drive measurable growth
Years Experience
10 - 15 Years Experience
Travel Requirements
On Occasion (Less than 5%)
Country
United States
Work-In City
REMOTE
Work-In State
REMOTE
Work-In Postal Code
REMOTE
Business
Transformco Corporate
Job Function
Engineering/Quality
Employment Category
Regular, Full-time
Compensation Range
$220,000-$240,000
Additional Compensation Explanation
N/A
EEO / EOE Footer
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet.
Posting Tags
#Corporate, #Remote, #SYW
Company Brand
Shop Your Way
Location City
HOFFMAN ESTATES
Posting note: Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Sears.
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Join to apply for the
Forward Deployment Engineer
role at
Sears
Job Scope
This role will lead the design, build, and scale of the Loyalty Card as a Service (LCAAS) platform with a deep focus on how partners and members engage through AI-powered loyalty, payments, and offer ecosystems.
Job Summary
The FDE will serve as the technical driving force behind our LCCAAS offering, blending hands-on engineering, AI and automation expertise, partner collaboration, and technical leadership. This role ensures LCCAAS is not only delivered successfully but also evolves into a modular, intelligent, and monetizable loyalty platform. By supporting both B2B2C and white-label partner contexts, the FDE will directly impact partner growth, member engagement, and measurable business outcomes.
Reports To
Chief Commercial Officer - SYW
Job Duties / Responsibilities Leads the development and delivery of partner-facing APIs, SDKs, and onboarding toolkits supporting loyalty, payments, and rewards solutions
Builds low-friction integration workflows and scalable toolkits that reduce partner time-to-value
Collaborates with Product, GTM, and Partner teams to align platform deployments with key growth metrics, including adoption, retention, and monetization
Serves as the forward-deployed engineering counterpart in strategic partner engagements, providing regular success reports (uptime, latency, activation time, automation ROI)
Leads the deployment of AI/ML pipelines supporting advanced use cases, including personalized rewards, predictive loyalty scoring, fraud detection, and dynamic offer delivery
Integrates multi-agent orchestration (LangChain, RAG pipelines, vector DBs) into partner workflows and LCAAS APIs
Leverages agentic AI tools to accelerate onboarding, automate data processes, and deliver partner-facing copilots
Develops automation playbooks (CI/CD triggers, auto-scaling, self-healing pipelines) and ensures observability, monitoring, and compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR/CCPA)
Drives the cloud architecture and integration strategy for the LCAAS platform, partnering across teams to optimize scalability, resilience, and cost performance
Drives DevOps adoption by delivering IaC, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management, while ensuring robust observability with monitoring, tracing, and logging
Ensures reliable and compliant system operations by managing API gateways, traffic flows, zero-trust security practices, and disaster recovery measures
Designs modular, future-proof services supporting real-time loyalty events, digital wallets, tokenized payments, and privacy-first data flows
Supports engineers in platform, integration, and AI disciplines through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career development
Promotes a culture of innovation by driving experimentation, rapid feedback cycles, and delivery approaches that prioritize partner needs and outcomes
Contributes to organizational strategy through involvement in planning, goal-setting (OKRs), talent acquisition, and effective resource management
Job Requirements Bachelor's Degree
Over 10 years of related experience
18 years of age or older
Required Skills 12+ years in software engineering; experience in partner-facing or forward-deployed roles
Proven ability to deploy B2B/B2B2C SaaS APIs and platforms in production
Strong experience with cloud-native development (AWS/GCP/Azure), IaC (Terraform/CDK), and CI/CD
Hands-on with AI/LLM frameworks (LangChain, vector DBs, RAG pipelines, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, Bedrock)
Skilled in event-driven architectures and real-time loyalty/payments flows
Deep knowledge of loyalty and rewards systems: earn/burn, tiers, catalogs, predictive scoring
Familiarity with payments, wallets, tokenization, and smart contract-based loyalty models
Understanding of compliance, security, and developer enablement best practices
Clear communicator, able to translate technical deployments into business growth outcomes
Thrives in ambiguous, high-velocity environments with direct partner engagement
Passion for building AI-native partner experiences that drive measurable growth
Years Experience
10 - 15 Years Experience
Travel Requirements
On Occasion (Less than 5%)
Country
United States
Work-In City
REMOTE
Work-In State
REMOTE
Work-In Postal Code
REMOTE
Business
Transformco Corporate
Job Function
Engineering/Quality
Employment Category
Regular, Full-time
Compensation Range
$220,000-$240,000
Additional Compensation Explanation
N/A
EEO / EOE Footer
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet.
Posting Tags
#Corporate, #Remote, #SYW
Company Brand
Shop Your Way
Location City
HOFFMAN ESTATES
Posting note: Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Sears.
#J-18808-Ljbffr