Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

About your application

Qualifications

• 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering
• Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams
• A track record of remaining deeply hands-on as your leadership scope has grown
• Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals across modern frontend and 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 comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior customer stakeholders
• High agency and comfort operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments
• Built 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-stage startup environment
• Worked across high-growth startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI
• What you’ll do
• In one sentence: build the team that deploys intelligence into the real world — and deploy it alongside them.
• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers
• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest 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 insights from customer deployments into foundational platform improvements
• Partner with other FDE leads to shape standards, playbooks, and how the function scales globally
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations
• Our Tech Stack
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Backend: Golang & Rust
• Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, multiple LLM providers
• Tooling: GitHub Actions, OTEL, Grafana, Terraform, and more
• Always evolving with what works best
• How we hire
• Fill out a short form and hop on a brief intro call with our recruiting team
• A technical leadership interview — how you build teams, set standards, and make technical decisions
• Show us how you approach hard technical problems
• Show us something you’ve built that makes you proud
• Conversations with the leaders you’d work most closely with, followed by a final discussion

Responsibilities

• In one sentence: build the team that deploys intelligence into the real world — and deploy it alongside them.
• Recruit, develop, and lead an exceptional team of Forward Deployed Engineers
• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest 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 insights from customer deployments into foundational platform improvements
• Partner with other FDE leads to shape standards, playbooks, and how the function scales globally
• Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations
• Our Tech Stack
• We choose tools that empower both humans and AI:
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Backend: Golang & Rust
• Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, multiple LLM providers
• Tooling: GitHub Actions, OTEL, Grafana, Terraform, and more
• Always evolving with what works best
• How we hire
• Fill out a short form and hop on a brief intro call with our recruiting team
• A technical leadership interview — how you build teams, set standards, and make technical decisions
• Show us how you approach hard technical problems
• Show us something you’ve built that makes you proud
• Conversations with the leaders you’d work most closely with, followed by a final discussion