Lead - Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

A battle-tested engineer who can code like hell, understands what makes businesses tick, and can elevate an entire team while doing it.

You'll lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers on client projects, working hand-in-hand with AI Transformation Leads to deliver software and products that help clients achieve their business goals. You'll own high-complexity projects end-to-end — driving product and technical design, navigating trade-offs, and ensuring timely delivery.

This is a natural career progression from the FDE role. Like FDEs, you'll be deeply embedded in client work — but you'll also bring back learnings, patterns, and insights that have a significant impact on the platform we're building.

What You'll Do

• Lead client engagements, driving delivery and raising the bar on engineering excellence
• Partner with AI Transformation Leads to design and deliver solutions that achieve client business outcomes
• Architect solutions - own technical design, navigate trade-offs, ensure extensibility
• Work directly with customers and stakeholders — including users, data scientists, and cross-functional teams
• Lead and mentor a team of FDEs, setting engineering standards and best practices
• Build AI-powered solutions, including developing, fine-tuning, and integrating LLMs
• Feed learnings back to the platform — identify patterns and opportunities from client work

What You'll Bring

Experience

• 7–10 years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record in a lead/senior role with team leadership
• Experience building applications from scratch (0-to-1)
• Strong proficiency across multiple programming languages (Ruby, Python, etc.)

Technical Skills

• Full-stack capability — front-end, back-end, data pipelines, AI models
• System design and architecture ownership
• AI/LLM practical experience

Leadership

• Experience mentoring engineers and growing teams
• Client-facing communication skills
• Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions

Mindset

• Comfortable with ambiguity, self-starter
• Bias toward shipping over perfection
• Stable career trajectory (we value commitment)