Lovable

Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

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18 hours ago
Stockholm, SwedenStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and difficult technical problems.
  • Design, prototype, implement, and ship production solutions alongside the team.
  • Own projects end to end from discovery and architecture through shipping and iteration.
  • Set the technical bar through architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on engineering.
  • Translate customer deployment insights into foundational platform improvements.
  • Partner with other FDE leads to establish engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks globally.
  • Contribute to core 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.
  • A track record of remaining deeply hands-on while leadership scope has grown.
  • Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, including React and TypeScript on the frontend and robust 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.
  • Ability to move between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and velocity.
  • Bonus qualifications include scaling a team or technical function from zero, working on agentic AI systems or production LLM applications, leading zero-to-one product development, working in a founding or early startup environment, and experience across startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI.

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Forward Deployed
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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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