Partner with customer engineering teams to design and deploy production-grade AI applications and data pipelines. Lead the implementation of LLM-based systems including RAG and agent workflows to solve complex technical problems. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong fullstack capabilities and cloud infrastructure knowledge.
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Job Description
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.
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Nice-to-Have
- Prior consulting or professional services background
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- US Timezone Overlap: CST, Full overlap required
Why Join Kake?
The icing on the Kake:
- 💰 Competitive Pay in USD: Work globally, get paid globally.
- 🌎 Fully Remote: Simply put, we trust you.
- 💜 Better Me Fund: We invest in your personal growth and passions.
- 🎂 Compassion is Badass: Join a community that invests in social good.
Ready for your piece of the Kake? Apply now!
Quick note: Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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