Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

Requirements

  • 12+ years 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 as your 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 comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior stakeholders
  • Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and velocity

Nice to Haves

  • Scaled a team or technical function from zero
  • Worked on agentic AI systems or built with LLMs in production
  • Led zero-to-one product development
  • Worked in a founding or early startup environment
  • Worked across high-growth startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI

What You'll Be Doing

  • Build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest technical problems
  • Design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team
  • Own and guide 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 insights from customer deployments into foundational platform improvements
  • Partner with other FDE leads to shape the function's engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks as it scales globally
  • Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations

Perks and Benefits

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