Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Customer-Facing)

Lovable; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is building the software creation platform for ideas at scale. We are seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers, translating ambitious ideas into production-grade software across frontend, backend, and AI systems.

You will shape the function as it grows, define engineering standards, and collaborate with core product teams. Expect up to 50% travel to client sites as part of the role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software.
• Strong full-stack fundamentals, including React and TypeScript on the frontend and robust backend development.
• A track record of writing maintainable, well-tested code and owning what you build in production.
• Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
• Ability to prototype rapidly and turn successful experiments into production-quality solutions.
• Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users.
• Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and problems.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and working production systems.
• Design, code, test, deploy, and operate solutions across Lovable’s frontend and backend.
• Translate insights from real usage into foundational platform improvements.
• Own projects end-to-end—from discovery and architecture through shipping and iteration.
• Debug complex issues across application, infrastructure, and AI-system boundaries.
• Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering operates at Lovable, including its engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks.
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

React & TypeScript

Distributed systems

Production code

User-focused design

Rapid prototyping

Customer collaboration

Tools

Github Actions

OTEL

Grafana

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Job description

Lovable is building the software creation platform for ideas at scale. We are seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers, translating ambitious ideas into production-grade software across frontend, backend, and AI systems.

You will shape the function as it grows, define engineering standards, and collaborate with core product teams. Expect up to 50% travel to client sites as part of the role.