--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer, UK at Persona' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-uk-persona-london-9y77zsfksd1x' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer, UK at Persona - **Company:** Persona - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona/87049e88-ac5d-4be5-b328-b67110e48a30 ## Job description ## About Persona [Persona](https://withpersona.com/) is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. Verifying individuals and organizations is harder — but more important — than ever, with AI enabling fraudsters to launch sophisticated accounts at scale and regulations evolving rapidly. We’ve built Persona to support practically every use case and industry — that’s why we’re able to serve a wide range of leading companies. For example, Reddit relies on Persona for age assurance and verification to comply with online safety regulations, protecting younger users while maintaining a seamless experience. Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on Persona to keep bad actors out, protecting one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms from large-scale abuse in a time when AI is reshaping the way we work and live. We’re growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us! ## About the Role As Persona’s first Forward Deployed Engineer in the UK, you’ll help customers turn complex identity challenges into practical solutions. You’ll partner with our Solutions Engineering, Sales and Customer Success teams across the customer journey - from technical discovery and proofs of concept to building integrations and launching solutions. This is an opportunity for someone with a strong technical foundation who enjoys building software, solving problems and working directly with customers. You don’t need prior expertise in identity verification, but you should be comfortable writing code, navigating APIs and owning technical projects. You’ll develop a deep understanding of our platform through hands-on work and close collaboration with customers and teammates. As part of our growing UK presence, you’ll also help shape how we share knowledge, deliver customer solutions and onboard future teammates. ## What you’ll do at Persona - Build customer solutions. Help translate customer needs into practical solutions using Persona’s APIs, integrations and workflows. - Support technical discovery and proofs of concept. Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering to understand customer requirements, prepare tailored demonstrations and build working prototypes. - Help customers launch successfully. Work with customer engineering teams to configure, test and implement solutions, with support from experienced teammates. - Investigate technical challenges. Troubleshoot integration issues, explore potential solutions and collaborate with Engineering when deeper investigation is needed. - Make your work reusable. Create sample code, documentation and tools that help customers and teammates solve similar problems. - Help improve our platform. Share customer feedback and technical insights with Product and Engineering to inform product improvements. ## What you’ll bring to Persona - 2–4 years of relevant technical experience. You’ve worked in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering or a similarly hands-on technical role, with experience delivering software or integrations used by customers. - Strong programming fundamentals. You’re comfortable writing, testing and debugging code in a language such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or Ruby. You can work in an unfamiliar codebase and build reliable solutions beyond a proof of concept. - Experience building API integrations. You understand REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, authentication and webhooks, and can reason through how systems exchange data and handle failures. - Clear communication. You enjoy explaining ideas, asking thoughtful questions and adapting your approach to technical and non-technical audiences. - An interest in customers. You want to understand not just how something works, but what someone is trying to achieve and why it matters. - Resourcefulness and follow-through. You’re organised, willing to investigate unfamiliar problems and comfortable asking for help when you need it. - A growth mindset. You seek out feedback, act on it and enjoy collaborating with people who have different perspectives and expertise. - Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time for customer engagements. ## Benefits and Perks For full-time US-based employees (excluding internship and contractor opportunities), Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipend, wellness benefits, among others. For full-time UK employees, Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, a 6% employer pension contribution, unlimited PTO, a monthly wellness stipend, professional development stipend, co-working stipend, and more. As part of our interview process, all candidates will be asked to verify their identity with Persona. This step is used solely to confirm that candidates are who they say they are, and will have no impact on hiring decisions. ## About Persona ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Persona provides a flexible and secure identity verification platform that helps businesses verify real people and real businesses online. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage and total funding not publicly available in provided sources) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources - **Founders**: Not publicly available from provided sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Identity verification, fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/KYB), workforce verification - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, fintechs, online platforms, and any business that needs to verify users or businesses - **Mission or purpose**: “Keeping the internet human” and “humanizing online identity” – building a safer and more accessible internet by being the identity layer that powers it. ## Products & Services - **Verifications**: Verify identities using modern signals and authoritative records. - **Dynamic Flow**: Build custom information-collection flows that maximize conversion and minimize fraud. - **Workflows**: Automate identity processes around use cases like KYC, KYB, and workforce verification. - **Cases**: Equip your team or Persona’s platform agents to review cases and investigate activity. - **Graph**: Detect coordinated fraud in real time with link analysis and signals. - **Privacy Portal**: A secure, user-friendly portal for consumers to manage their privacy and personal data requests. All offerings are modular, API-first, and delivered as a SaaS platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue and total funding not found in provided sources) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not mentioned in provided search results - **Growth Signals**: - Described as “one of the fastest growing companies in technology” on their early careers page. - Hiring heavily for mid-level talent (59% of roles) with 32 open positions; 38% of roles are in engineering. - 100% of job postings require OpenAI skills, indicating deep AI integration across all functions. - Hiring has been flat for two months, suggesting steady rather than explosive momentum. - Company concentrated in San Francisco (26 of 32 roles), with 4 remote positions. ## Competitive Advantages - **Security and privacy at the core**: Compliant and certified to the highest industry standards; provides a consumer privacy portal. - **Modular, flexible platform**: Building blocks for any identity use case, from simple verification to complex fraud orchestration. - **Graph technology**: Real-time link analysis to detect coordinated fraud – a differentiator over basic verification tools. - **Speed without compromise**: Culture of efficiency while maintaining high quality. ## Strategic Focus - **AI integration across every function**: OpenAI skills required for all roles, signaling that AI is core to product, sales, engineering, and operations. - **Scaling execution**: Inverted seniority mix (59% mid-level, 16% senior) suggests the company is prioritizing doers and individual contributors over management layers. - **Expanding identity lifecycle**: From initial verification to ongoing fraud prevention and workforce identity. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: “People first,” “speed is not a tradeoff,” “work in public,” “start small, think big,” “lead by serving.” Emphasis on collaboration, continuous improvement, and high standards. - **Benefits & Perks**: - 401(k) with 3% automatic annual contribution (even if employee doesn’t contribute). - Unlimited PTO and quarterly company-wide wellness days. - 16 weeks parental leave (including all paths to parenthood). - Annual professional development reimbursement (courses, books, conferences). - Monthly wellness stipend (gym, books, etc.) and coworking stipend for remote employees. - Commuter benefits, catered lunch on in-office days, weekly company meetings, team offsites, and social events. - **Engineering Culture**: Mentorship from former Square, Dropbox, and Coursera engineers; ship features end-to-end from week one; strong early career programs (internships, technical leadership program). - **Work Model**: Hybrid/office-first in San Francisco, with some fully remote roles available. In-office presence includes catered meals and curated social events. ## Sources 1. [withpersona.com/careers](https://withpersona.com/careers/) 2. [withpersona.com](https://withpersona.com/) 3. [withpersona.com/about](https://withpersona.com/about) 4. [withpersona.com/early-careers](https://withpersona.com/early-careers/) 5. 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