Forward Deployed Engineering Lead
StockholmFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to build and lead the FDE team, partner with customers to turn ideas into real products, and stay hands-on in design, code, and shipping while scaling the function globally.
Responsibilities
- Build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
- Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest technical problems
- Design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team
- Own and guide projects end-to-end, from discovery and architecture through shipping and 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 the function's engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks as it scales globally
- Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations
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, 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 comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior stakeholders
- Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and velocity
Skills
Required:Software engineeringFrontend developmentBackend developmentDistributed systemsCustomer engagementLeadership
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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