Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Product

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Engineering

Seeking senior engineers and technical leaders for the Product team to build the future of AI software creation. The role involves working across the entire stack to build features that empower creators and builders, scaling the core Lovable experience for millions of users worldwide. Responsibilities include building and scaling systems, implementing features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, designing backend services, collaborating with ML/design/product teams, and driving the full development lifecycle.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and scale the systems that power Lovable products, ensuring they're fast, reliable, and ready to support millions of users.
  2. Implement and maintain features across the stack - frontend, backend, and infrastructure - owning them from architecture through to production.
  3. Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and infrastructure components built for scale.
  4. Collaborate closely with ML, design, and product teams to translate capabilities into intuitive, mind-blowing user experiences.
  5. Drive the full development lifecycle, from technical planning to production launch and post-release iteration.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping production products
  • senior engineering levels
  • Deep experience across the full stack, or strong backend depth
  • fluent in modern frontend (React/TypeScript) and/or backend (Golang, Rust) development
  • Solid understanding of systems design, performance tradeoffs, and scalable architecture for products serving millions of users
  • Strong product sense
  • ability to make well-reasoned technical decisions
  • own systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity at an organisational level
  • based in Stockholm or ready to relocate
  • on-site, 5-days-a-week role

Nice to have

  • modern frontend (React/TypeScript)
  • backend (Golang, Rust)

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping production products, with a track record operating at senior engineering levels.
  • You own systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.