Global AI-Powered FDE Leader — Hands-On Engineer

Fdetimes; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to build and lead an FDE team that ships AI-powered software with customers around the world. You will stay hands-on, write production code, and shape how the function operates across regions.

You’ll work with top customers, set a high technical bar, and influence product direction while grow­ing the team and standardizing processes for scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, architecture, and customer-facing delivery.
• Proven track record leading technical teams with hands-on coding.
• Strong frontend and backend fundamentals across modern stacks.
• Architectural thinking for distributed systems and scalable platforms.
• Experience delivering end-to-end AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering team locally and globally.
• Work directly with ambitious customers, writing production code.
• Define standards, playbooks, and scalable practices for FDE globally.
• Partner with customers to understand workflows and solve hard problems.
• Translate deployments into core product and platform improvements.
• Contribute to product strategy and technical roadmap.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical architecture

Customer-facing engineering

Hands-on leadership

Full-stack fundamentals

Tools

React

TypeScript

Golang

Rust

Cloudflare

GCP

AWS

LLM tooling

Job description

Lovable is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to build and lead an FDE team that ships AI-powered software with customers around the world. You will stay hands-on, write production code, and shape how the function operates across regions.

You’ll work with top customers, set a high technical bar, and influence product direction while grow­ing the team and standardizing processes for scale.