Forward Deployed Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026. Kake scores B on the Alion truth index.
Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. Kake engineers are behind some of the world’s most innovative products (Brands you’ve heard!), from Fortune 500 to fast-growing companies. We believe it’s not where your table is, but what you bring to the table that matters. Our community spans 45,000+ engineers across 55+ countries; join a culture where great people stay, grow, and thrive (and love eating kake!).
We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customer engineering teams and put an AI platform to work on their hardest technical problems. This role is focused on designing, building, and deploying production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines directly alongside customer teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner directly with customer engineering and business teams to scope the highest-impact use cases
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade applications, integrations, and data pipelines on top of the platform
- Prototype rapidly in close collaboration with customers, refining based on their feedback
- Work hands-on with LLM-based systems, from prompting and RAG to agent workflows, debugging and resolving issues in live, in-production deployments, often under time pressure
- Turn recurring customer needs into concrete feedback for product and engineering to improve the core platform
Core Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of customer-facing or high-ambiguity work
- Strong coding ability in at least one of Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go
- Track record shipping fullstack applications, APIs, and data pipelines end to end
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), databases, and SQL
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems (prompting, RAG, evals, agent workflows)
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting requirements in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment
- Strong ownership and bias toward action, doing what it takes to get the customer unblocked
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.
Nice-to-Have
- Prior consulting or professional services background
Additional
- US Timezone Overlap: CST, Full overlap required