Forward Deployed Engineer
Build and deploy full-stack, AI-powered solutions directly with customers while translating real-world usage into product improvements. The role requires 5+ years of product engineering experience, strong frontend and backend skills, architectural judgment, and comfort in ambiguous environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and problems.
- Design and implement customer solutions that integrate with Lovable.
- Translate insights from real usage into foundational platform improvements.
- Own projects end-to-end, from ideation and architecture through shipping and iteration.
- Shape Forward Deployed Engineering practices, including rituals, playbooks, and organizational design.
- Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack products.
- Proficiency with modern frontend development using React and TypeScript.
- Strong backend development skills.
- Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
- Ability to rapidly prototype, experiment, and learn from real usage.
- Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users.
- Comfort operating in high-ambiguity, high-agency environments.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working on agentic AI systems or building with large language models.
- Experience leading zero-to-one product development.
- Experience in a founding or early-stage startup environment.
Tech Stack
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Backend: Golang, Rust
- Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, multiple LLM providers
- Tooling: GitHub Actions, OTEL, Grafana, Terraform
Skills
React, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Distributed Systems, Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, LLMs, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Terraform
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