Lovable

Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

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16 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build, recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering team.
  • Remain hands-on by designing, prototyping, implementing, and shipping solutions with customers and the team.
  • Own technical engagements from idea through architecture, shipping, and iteration.
  • Set technical standards through architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on engineering.
  • Work directly with customers to understand workflows, needs, and difficult technical problems.
  • Translate customer deployment insights into foundational product and platform improvements.
  • Partner with other FDE leads to establish standards, playbooks, and global operating practices.
  • Contribute to product strategy, technical decisions, and company culture.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
  • Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams while remaining hands-on.
  • Strong full-stack fundamentals across modern frontend and backend development.
  • Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
  • Experience owning complex technical engagements end-to-end.
  • Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users and senior customer stakeholders.
  • Ability to move between coding, architectural decisions, engineering leadership, and customer collaboration.
  • Bonus: experience building a team or technical function from zero, working with agentic AI systems or LLMs in production, leading zero-to-one product development, or working in startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
Lovable

About Lovable

1,001-5,000 employees

Lovable builds an AI-native software creation platform that lets people build apps and websites by chatting with AI, along with tools such as gptengineer.app. It serves solopreneurs, small businesses, and enterprise teams, and users have created over 60 million projects since its November 2024 launch, with customers including Adidas and Zendesk. The company is privately held and headquartered in Stockholm.

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