Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote)

About the role

Kake is a remote-first company of senior engineers working on products for brands from Fortune 500 to fast-growing companies. It is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customer engineering teams and put an AI platform to work on their hardest technical problems. The role focuses on designing, building and deploying production-grade applications, integrations and data pipelines 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 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.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of customer-facing or high-ambiguity work.
• Track record shipping full-stack applications, APIs and data pipelines end to end.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting requirements in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Strong ownership and bias toward action, able to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Nice to have: prior consulting or professional services background.
• US Central Time zone overlap required (full overlap).

Required skills

• Strong coding in at least one of Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript or Go.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), databases and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems (prompting, RAG, evals, agent workflows).

What we offer

• Competitive pay in USD, paid globally.
• Fully remote work.
• Better Me Fund investing in personal growth and passions.
• A community that invests in social good.