AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer for Client Solutions

Taraki; Lahore; On-site; PKR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

shopdev is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI-native) in Lahore. You will own client problems end-to-end, design and build production systems across the stack, and use AI coding tools as your primary workflow while ensuring robust, verifiable results.

You will work directly with client engineering and product teams, communicate decisions, and frequently update stakeholders. The role demands seniority, breadth, and rapid learning across platforms.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional software engineering with production systems you designed and shipped.
• Strong grasp of how systems fit together, including data flows, APIs, authentication, failure modes and integration between platforms.
• Hands-on experience building real software with AI coding tools and breaking work into tasks with clear context and acceptance criteria.
• Excellent written English, and comfort speaking with senior client stakeholders in the US.
• A track record of owning outcomes, finishing what you start and surfacing problems before anyone has to ask.
• Enough commercial sense to know when good enough is the right answer.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous client requests into an agreed plan.
• Design and build production systems across the stack with AI tools as your default workflow.
• Review everything the AI produces, test edge cases, and explain why the result is correct.
• Write clear updates, decision records and tradeoff notes for engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Join client calls as a peer, raise risks early, and defend technical decisions.
• Pick up unfamiliar platforms and APIs quickly when a project needs them.

Skills

Excellent written English

Client stakeholder communication

Problem ownership

Cross-stack capability

Claude Code

Codex

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

shopdev is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI-native) in Lahore. You will own client problems end-to-end, design and build production systems across the stack, and use AI coding tools as your primary workflow while ensuring robust, verifiable results.

You will work directly with client engineering and product teams, communicate decisions, and frequently update stakeholders. The role demands seniority, breadth, and rapid learning across platforms.