Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

You will

• Build and lead the FDE team in your location

• Join a small group of FDE leaders defining how the function operates and scales globally

• Stay deeply hands-on — personally building and shipping alongside your team

• Partner with customers building never-seen-before AI systems

• Set a high technical bar across architecture, engineering, and execution

• Turn patterns from real deployments into core product and platform improvements

• Influence our product direction, technical roadmap, and how FDE works at Lovable

If you want to build an exceptional engineering team without stepping away from building yourself — this is that role.

What you’ll do

In one sentence: build the team that deploys intelligence into the real world — and deploy it alongside them.

• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest technical problems

• Personally design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team

• Own and guide projects from idea → architecture → shipping → 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 standards, playbooks, and how the function scales globally

• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations

What we’re looking for

• 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

Bonus if you’ve

• 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