Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Software Development

Washington, DC

About the role

Run technical workshops, demonstrations, whiteboarding sessions, and customer co-creation activities that connect customer needs to practical architectures and adoption paths. Partner with account teams, customer engineering stakeholders, and partners to support technical qualification, remove blockers, and progress opportunities toward deployment. Support pilots, proofs of concept, and technical validations that show how GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, and platform engineering practices improve software delivery outcomes. Maintain hands-on knowledge of software development, modern application patterns, developer tools, DevOps workflows, security, observability, and manufacturing-relevant modernization scenarios. Share customer feedback and learnings with internal teams to improve repeatable technical assets, demos, and customer-ready guidance for the Manufacturing business. Technical pre-sales, technical consulting, software engineering, application development, DevOps, platform engineering, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience. Experience engaging developers, architects, platform teams, or technical decision makers on software development, application modernization, DevOps, or cloud adoption topics. Proficiency with modern programming languages and frameworks such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Node.js, React, or equivalent technologies. Hands-on familiarity with developer platforms and tools such as GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, CI/CD, DevOps, or platform engineering concepts. Experience with manufacturing software scenarios such as factory or edge applications, SAP-adjacent modernization, industrial data platforms, resilient operations, or connected products. Experience with cloud-native development patterns, including APIs, containers, microservices, event-driven architectures, observability, security, or performance engineering. Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Copilot adoption, DevOps governance, or secure software supply-chain practices. Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with engineering teams and business stakeholders in a hybrid customer-facing environment, including travel across Germany as needed. Proficiency in English and German

About Swiftkey

SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages. SwiftKey was founded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Job details

Location

Washington, DC

Company

NameSwiftkey
IndustryAndroid
Team Size2

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No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

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02

I pitch you to the company

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03

A meeting lands on your calendar

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