Forward Deployed Engineering Lead
Stockholm · 12+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 12+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Stockholm
About the role
- You'll build and lead the FDE team and partner with our most ambitious customers to turn ideas into real products.
- This is still a hands-on role: you'll design, write, and ship production code alongside your team, while partnering with our other FDE leaders to shape how the function operates globally.
- You'll build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers who partner with our customers at the frontier of what Lovable can do, solving hard technical problems across our frontend, backend and AI systems.
Responsibilities
- 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
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
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- Golang
- Rust
- Cloudflare
- GCP
- AWS
- LLM
- GitHub Actions
- OTEL
- Grafana
- Terraform
