Lovable
Forward Deployed Engineering Lead
Stockholm. Posted 7 days ago
The role
You will build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers. You will work with customers to design, prototype, and implement solutions while translating customer insights into platform improvements.
What you will do
- Build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
- Work directly with customers to understand workflows and technical problems
- Design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team
- Own and guide projects end-to-end from discovery to iteration
- Set the technical bar through architecture decisions and code reviews
- Translate customer deployment insights into platform improvements
- Partner with other FDE leads to shape engineering standards and playbooks
- Contribute to core product strategy and technical decisions
Required qualifications
- 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering
- Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams
- Track record of remaining deeply hands-on as leadership scope has grown
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, including React and TypeScript on the frontend and robust backend development
- Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems
- Experience owning complex technical engagements end-to-end
- Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users
- Ability to move between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior stakeholders
- Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and velocity
Nice to have
- Scaled a team or technical function from zero
- Worked on agentic AI systems or built with LLMs in production
- Led zero-to-one product development
- Worked in a founding or early startup environment
- Worked across high-growth startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI
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 growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco.