Hands-On Forward‑Deployed Engineering Lead

Lovable; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is building a generational software platform from Stockholm with global teams. We are seeking a senior leader to build and guide a Forward Deployed Engineering team, hands-on and deeply technical, while collaborating with customers to deploy intelligent AI systems at scale.

You will influence architecture, roadmap, and best practices, and work across frontend and backend disciplines in a fast-moving, ambiguity-rich environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering, architecture, and customer-facing roles.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing technical teams.
• Hands-on leader who builds and ships alongside the team.
• Strong frontend and backend fundamentals with distributed systems experience.
• Experience owning complex engagements end-to-end.
• Excellent product intuition and user collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, needs, and 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 deployment insights into core platform improvements.
• Partner with other FDE leads to shape standards, playbooks, and global scaling.
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations.

Skills

Leadership experience

Hands-on leadership

Full-stack engineering

Frontend: React/TS

Backend: Go/Rust

Distributed systems

Customer-facing engineering

Architectural design

AI/LLM production experience

High-velocity environments

Tools

GitHub Actions

OTEL

Grafana

Terraform

Cloudflare

GCP

AWS

Job description

Lovable is building a generational software platform from Stockholm with global teams. We are seeking a senior leader to build and guide a Forward Deployed Engineering team, hands-on and deeply technical, while collaborating with customers to deploy intelligent AI systems at scale.

You will influence architecture, roadmap, and best practices, and work across frontend and backend disciplines in a fast-moving, ambiguity-rich environment.