Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 June 2

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Akka (formerly Lightbend)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

API • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Akka is a platform designed to build and run responsive applications that are elastic, agile, and resilient. It enables developers to create transactional and durable services while seamlessly distributing data and logic. Akka offers a simple SDK along with powerful libraries for automation in serverless environments, ensuring high availability and real-time performance for applications across various domains, including AI inference, analytics, and edge computing.

📋 Description

• Design and deliver highly engaging technical workshops, architectural deep-dives, and hands-on training sessions • Act as a core technical anchor and enable customer developers with architectural guidance • Provide immediate, collaborative technical direction and troubleshooting • Guide customers in architecting logic systems using multi-agent LLM interactions • Ensure customer applications are resilient, production-ready, and scalable • Serve as a bidirectional bridge between the customer and Akka's internal teams • Host interactive "Office Hours" and recurring architectural reviews

🎯 Requirements

• Deep, hands-on proficiency in constructing complex logic systems using LLMs and multi-agent frameworks • Strong background in building enterprise-grade policy ladders and implementing robust guardrails • Experience building AI test suites for continuous evaluation and model performance measurement • Native-level English verbal and written fluency • Proven track record of picking up new languages and frameworks rapidly • Background in technical enablement, developer relations, technical consulting, or engineering mentorship • Solid experience in distributed architecture and functional programming concepts • Specific hands-on experience with Akka (Clustering, Persistence, and Streams) is highly desirable • Strong professional understanding of Java or other JVM-based languages • Understanding of application deployment and container orchestration, particularly Kubernetes

🏖️ Benefits

• A transparent, distributed work environment with a strong focus on work-life balance • Challenging work that interacts with innovative applications used by millions • A collaborative culture that attracts the "brightest minds" in the technology community