Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work directly with customers to translate ideas into products by designing, writing, and shipping production code. You will solve technical problems across frontend, backend, and AI systems to identify platform improvements.

What you will do

• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, needs, and problems
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and working production systems
• Design, code, test, deploy, and operate solutions across frontend and backend
• Translate insights from real usage into foundational platform improvements
• Own projects end-to-end from discovery and architecture through shipping and iteration
• Debug complex issues across application, infrastructure, and AI-system boundaries
• Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering operates including standards, rituals, and playbooks
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software
• Extensive software engineering skills across the application stack
• Track record of writing maintainable, well-tested code and owning what you build in production
• Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems
• Ability to prototype rapidly and turn successful experiments into production-quality solutions
• Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users
• Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and end-to-end ownership

Nice to have

• Worked on agentic AI systems or built with LLMs before
• Led zero-to-one product development
• Worked in a founding or early startup environment

Before you apply

• Submit your application in English
• Fill out a short form and hop on a brief intro call with our recruiting team
• Complete a quick live coding exercise
• Technical interviews
• Show something you have built that makes you proud

About the company

Lovable is a software creation platform that allows people to turn ideas into software. The company is building a generational company from Stockholm with teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco.