Senior Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

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

Job summary

Lovable is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Lead in London to build and lead a high-performing FDE team. You’ll stay hands-on, writing production code and shipping alongside your engineers while shaping how the function operates globally.

You’ll work directly with ambitious customers to understand workflows, own complex architectural decisions, and drive platform improvements. This is a rare chance to couple leadership with hands-on building at scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience across software engineering and customer-facing roles.
• Hands-on leadership with ongoing coding and architecture work.
• Strong frontend and backend fundamentals and distributed systems knowledge.
• Proven track record in end-to-end technical engagements with customers.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional FDE team.
• Work directly with customers to understand workflows and technical problems.
• Design, prototype, and implement solutions with the team.
• Own projects from idea to shipping and iteration.
• Set technical bar through architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Translate deployment insights into platform improvements.
• Collaborate with other FDE leaders to scale globally.
• Contribute to product strategy and technical roadmaps.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Full-stack

Distributed systems

Architectural thinking

Customer engagement

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Hiring

Tools

React

TypeScript

Golang

Rust

Cloudflare

GCP

AWS

LLM tooling

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Job description

Lovable is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Lead in London to build and lead a high-performing FDE team. You’ll stay hands-on, writing production code and shipping alongside your engineers while shaping how the function operates globally.

You’ll work directly with ambitious customers to understand workflows, own complex architectural decisions, and drive platform improvements. This is a rare chance to couple leadership with hands-on building at scale.