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Forward Deployed Engineer

Replit · Foster City, CA · Remote

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About Replit

Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world's largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software
  • Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and technical environments
  • Hands-on work with LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool calls, and evals
  • Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion
  • Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders
More about this role

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

Join our FDE team and work directly with some of the world's largest organizations to turn their most ambitious ideas into production applications on Replit. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner closely with customers to understand their technical and business needs, architect solutions, and build the integrations and applications required to deploy Replit successfully within complex enterprise environments.

This is a deeply technical and hands-on role. You won’t just advise customers on what to build—you’ll build alongside them. You’ll take applications from initial idea and prototype through deployment and production, navigate complex enterprise environments, and solve the technical challenges that emerge when AI-powered software development meets real-world infrastructure, data, security, and organizational constraints.

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