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

• High-Touch Client Enablement & Technical Training: Design and deliver technical workshops and training sessions to customer development teams. • Technical Mentorship & Pairing: Act as a core technical anchor, enabling customer developers through architectural guidance and building proofs of concept. • Guiding Production Success (AI & Systems Engineering): Guide customers in architecting logic systems and ensuring deployment excellence for customer applications. • Strategic Partnership: Serve as a bridge between the customer and internal teams to influence product roadmap based on real-world engineering challenges.

🎯 Requirements

• Agentic AI & Logic Systems Expertise: Deep, hands-on proficiency in constructing complex logic systems using LLMs and multi-agent frameworks. • AI Safety, Guardrails, & Evaluation: Strong background in building enterprise-grade policy ladders and implementing robust guardrails to ensure agentic behavior remains predictable and safe. • Elite Communication & Client Polish: Native-level English verbal and written fluency, capable of leading technical presentations and translating complex concepts into clear discussions. • Hyper-Fast Technical Adaptability: Proven track record of picking up new languages, frameworks, and cutting-edge AI paradigms rapidly. • The "Teacher" Mindset: Background in technical enablement, developer relations, technical consulting, or engineering mentorship with a passion for teaching. • Distributed Computing Foundation: Solid experience in distributed architecture and functional programming concepts. • JVM Proficiency: Strong professional understanding of Java or other JVM-based languages. • Cloud-Native & SRE Awareness: 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.