Forward Deployed Engineer - Remote

Kake; Portugal; Remote; EUR 108,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive USD pay

Fully remote work

Personal growth fund

Community impact programs

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first, people-first global community of senior engineers. We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customer teams and deploy production-grade AI-powered solutions, data pipelines, and integrations on our platform.

You will design, build, and iterate with customers, working hands-on with LLM-based systems and complex deployments. The role emphasizes strong ownership, independence, and clear communication in an international remote setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping fullstack apps and data pipelines.
• Hands-on with LLM-based systems.
• Excellent English communication.
• Able to work remotely with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customer teams to scope the highest-impact use cases.
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines.
• Prototype rapidly with customers and iterate based on feedback.
• Work with LLM-based systems, prompting, RAG, and agent workflows.
• Translate recurring customer needs into product feedback for improvement.

Skills

Fullstack development

Cloud infrastructure

LLM systems

Customer-facing experience

English communication

Remote work independence

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

SQL

APIs

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. Kake engineers are behind some of the world’s most innovative products (Brands you’ve heard!), from Fortune 500 to fast-growing companies. We believe it’s not where your table is, but what you bring to the table that matters. Our community spans 45,000+ engineers across 55+ countries; join a culture where great people stay, grow, and thrive (and love eating kake!).

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customer engineering teams and put an AI platform to work on their hardest technical problems. This role is focused on designing, building, and deploying production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines directly alongside customer teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customer engineering and business teams to scope the highest-impact use cases
• Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines on top of the platform
• Prototype rapidly in close collaboration with customers, refining based on their feedback
• Work hands-on with LLM-based systems, from prompting and RAG to agent workflows, debugging and resolving issues in live, in-production deployments, often under time pressure
• Turn recurring customer needs into concrete feedback for product and engineering to improve the core platform

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of customer-facing or high-ambiguity work
• Track record shipping fullstack applications, APIs, and data pipelines end to endWorking knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), databases, and SQL
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems (prompting, RAG, evals, agent workflows)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting requirements in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment
• Strong ownership and bias toward action, doing what it takes to get the customer unblocked
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-Have

• Prior consulting or professional services background

Additional

• US Timezone Overlap: CST, Full overlap required

Why Join Kake?

The icing on the Kake:

• Competitive Pay in USD: Work globally, get paid globally.
• Fully Remote: Simply put, we trust you.
• Better Me Fund: We invest in your personal growth and passions.
• Compassion is Badass: Join a community that invests in social good.

Quick note: Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.