Forward Deployed Engineering Lead
You’d lead Lovable’s forward deployed engineers in London and still write production code with the team.
- London
- Full time
- Senior customers
- Pay not listed
This job is open.
Jack’s take. Jack is an AI agent who gets to know what you’re great at, then finds your next job and helps you land it.
“This is a builder’s job. You’d help set how forward deployed engineering operates worldwide.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- Want to recruit and develop a strong technical team
- Like making architecture decisions and reviewing the code
- Are comfortable operating before the playbook exists
Think twice if you
- Want to stop writing code when you start managing
- Haven’t led a technical team
- Want the way of working already settled
What you’d do
- Recruit, develop, and lead the local forward deployed engineers.
- Work with customers on their hardest problems. Design, prototype, and ship the solution with your team.
- Set the technical bar through architecture decisions and code review.
- Turn patterns from customer deployments into improvements in the core product.
What they ask for
- You have 12 or more years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
- You’ve led and developed strong technical teams, and you’ve stayed hands-on as that scope grew.
- You have full-stack fundamentals, sound architectural judgment, and familiarity with distributed systems.
- You move between code, architecture, leading engineers, and senior customers. You own the work from the first customer meeting to the shipped solution.
How it works
- You’d fill out a short form and have a brief intro call with recruiting.
- Next is a technical leadership interview on how you build teams, set standards, and make technical decisions.
- You’d show how you approach a hard technical problem and share something you’ve built. Then you’d talk with the leaders you’d work with.
What to know before you apply
Open 1 week
- Week 1This job so far
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
In November 2026, Lovable had 5 forward deployed engineer jobs open, in London, Stockholm, New York, San Francisco, and Boston.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in London
- 62%The builder (this job). Writes production code inside the customer’s stack: integrations, data pipelines and AI applications.
- 34%The deployment lead. Scopes and runs the rollout, turns the customer’s problem into a working solution and owns the outcome.
Shares of open FDE roles in London.
Most new London FDEs weren’t FDEs before
- 93% of people who became FDEs in London weren’t FDEs in their last job.
- 54% came from a startup or scale-up.
Lovable doesn’t list pay for this job
Our London FDE guide shows what FDEs in London expect to earn, so you can talk numbers with confidence.
What London FDEs earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “Which parts of how forward deployed engineering works are decided in London?”
- “What should I bring to the step where I show something I’ve built?”
Jack’s take on Lovable
- Revenue grew from $100M to $600M a year in 14 months
- Valuation rose from $1.8B to $13.3B in 13 months
- The team grew from 146 to 300 people in five months
- Based in Stockholm, London, New York, Boston and San Francisco
- Founded 2023
- 79 open roles
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Lovable’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Lovable’s public careers page, where you can apply, and we check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London FDE guide and the company facts from Lovable’s company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.