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 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
• Ability to move comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior customer stakeholders
• High agency and comfort operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments

Nice to haves

• Built 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-stage startup environment
• Worked across high-growth startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI

What you'll be doing

• Build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in your location
• Join a small group of FDE leaders defining the global operation and scaling of the function
• Stay deeply hands-on by personally building and shipping alongside your team
• Partner with customers building novel AI systems
• Set a high technical bar across architecture, engineering, and execution
• Turn patterns from real deployments into core product and platform improvements
• Influence product direction, technical roadmap, and FDE operations at Lovable
• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers
• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, needs, and complex technical problems
• Design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team
• Own and guide projects from idea through architecture, shipping, and iteration
• Set technical standards through architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on engineering
• Translate customer deployment insights into foundational platform improvements
• Partner with other FDE leads to create standards, playbooks, and scale the function globally
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations

Perks and benefits

• Work at one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies recognized for AI innovation
• Join a small, talent-dense, and fast-moving culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration
• Opportunity to build and lead an exceptional engineering team while remaining hands-on
• Engage directly with ambitious customers and cutting-edge AI projects
• Use a modern tech stack including React, TypeScript, Golang, Rust, Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, and multiple LLM providers
• Contribute to a platform that empowers millions of users worldwide