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# Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

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Lovable posts a FDE role to lead deployment teams in New York, NY, at $241,000–$390,500 base, above the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Leads and grows a location-based Forward Deployed Engineering team while remaining hands-on in customer engagements, architecture, and production code. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Lovable](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lovable)

First seen Aug 31, 2026 · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$241,000–$390,500** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time

Leads and grows a location-based Forward Deployed Engineering team while remaining hands-on in customer engagements, architecture, and production code.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$241K–$391K Above the median

Midpoint $316K · median $225K

This job $241K to $391K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K.

### The work

Leads the deployment team

Balance **Mixed**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Staff+

- **Role**: People manager

### What they ask for

Experience

- **12+ years** software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Solutions and customer engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 12+ years. How many do you have?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Lovable

**TL;DR** - We’re looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to help build the future of AI-powered software creation. You’ll build and lead an exceptional FDE team, while working alongside our other FDE leaders to shape how the function operates globally. You’ll remain deeply hands-on — working directly with our most ambitious customers, writing production code, and building alongside your team.

### Why Lovable?

Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we’re just getting started.

We’re building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

Lovable is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

### What makes this role special?

You will:

- Build and lead the FDE team in your location
- Join a small group of FDE leaders defining how the function operates and scales globally
- Stay deeply hands-on — personally building and shipping alongside your team
- Partner with customers building never-seen-before AI systems
- Set a high technical bar across architecture, engineering, and execution
- Turn patterns from real deployments into core product and platform improvements
- Influence our product direction, technical roadmap, and how FDE works at Lovable

If you want to build an exceptional engineering team without stepping away from building yourself — this is that role.

### What we’re looking for

- 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

Bonus if you’ve:

- 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

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

1. Fill out a short form and hop on a brief intro call with our recruiting team

2. A technical leadership interview — how you build teams, set standards, and make technical decisions

3. Show us how you approach hard technical problems

4. Show us something you’ve built that makes you proud

5. Conversations with the leaders you’d work most closely with, followed by a final discussion

### About your application

- Please submit your application in English — it’s our company language, so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join
- We treat all candidates equally — if you’re interested, please apply through our careers portal

[View posting at Lovable](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable/2bad82d6-3fd0-42a2-afbf-f1e9511057d4/application)

## About Lovable

AI-native app builder that lets anyone build software by chatting with an LLM. Serves 8M+ users from solopreneurs to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Series B · 100–200 people

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