Forward Deployed Engineer (Europe - Remote)

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Lightbend (@Lightbend) is leading the enterprise transformation toward real-time, cloud-native applications.

Lightbend

Employee count: 51-200

Germany only

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Akka is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to serve as the primary technical anchor for customers, providing expertise to build robust, production-grade applications on their agentic platform.

Requirements

Guiding customers to build & release successfully
Spec-Driven Development
Production Readiness
Technical Execution
Knowledge Transfer
Maintaining customer expertise in post-production
General Technical Support
Complex Issue Resolution
Bidirectional Product Collaboration

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

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About the job

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Apr 06, 2026

Posted on

Feb 05, 2026

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Location requirements

Germany

Hiring timezones

Germany +/- 0 hours

Job categories

Remote Forward Deployed Engineer Mid Level Forward Deployed Data Engineer Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Skills

Post production Agentic Akka

About Lightbend

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Lightbend (@Lightbend) is leading the enterprise transformation toward real-time, cloud-native applications. Lightbend Platform provides scalable, high-performance microservices frameworks and streaming engines for building data-centric systems that are optimized to run on cloud-native infrastructure. The most admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with Lightbend, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world.

Tech stack

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Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

Python

HTML5

Java

CSS 3

PHP

Ruby

Perl

C++

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Employee benefits

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Healthcare benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Stock option plan

So you are rewarded for your best work.

Retirement benefits

401(k) to help you invest in your future.

Generous vacation

We have a generous PTO policy to help encourage work life balance.

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