Forward Deployed Engineer at Kake

Role overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build or review technical systems for customer-facing engineering and technical delivery.
• Collaborate with customers, product and engineering stakeholders.
• Improve reliability, testing, documentation and delivery quality.
• Translate complex requirements into practical, maintainable solutions.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Prior consulting or professional services background
• US Timezone Overlap: CST, Full overlap required

Technology in this role

• Python: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• JavaScript: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• TypeScript: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• Java: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• AWS: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• Azure: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• GCP: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• SQL: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• Go: Python JavaScript TypeScript Java AWS Azure GCP SQL .
• LLM: • 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 .
• RAG: • 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 .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Forward Deployed Engineer position at Kake is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “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…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the technical area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Design, build or review technical systems for customer-facing engineering and technical delivery.”; “Collaborate with customers, product and engineering stakeholders.”; “Improve reliability, testing, documentation and delivery quality.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.

How to.

Benefits

• Worldwide or US-remote arrangement as stated in the official posting.
• Opportunity to work on software, AI or technical delivery projects.

About Kake

Kake describes itself as a remote-first community of experienced software engineers that helps client teams add individual engineers or full engineering groups. Its model combines technical vetting and human selection with AI-supported processes; Kake engineers work as dedicated members of client teams rather than as a separate outsourced delivery queue.

The company recruits across frontend, backend, mobile, quality engineering, data and DevOps. Its public hiring pages emphasize end-to-end ownership, collaboration with product and design, and engineering judgment. The exact client, product, team structure and employment terms can vary by opening, so candidates should verify those specifics in the individual listing.

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