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Replit

Builds an AI agent that creates and hosts apps

Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$180k - $300k/yr+ Equity + 4% 401(k) match
Senior
Foster City, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and deploying production software.
  • Strong programming skills and the ability to quickly understand and work across unfamiliar codebases, application programming interfaces, and technical environments.
  • Hands-on experience with production large language model applications, including retrieval, tool calls, and evaluations.
  • Experience designing and owning complex technical systems from architecture through production.
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and independently drive technical projects to completion.
  • Strong technical communication skills and experience working directly with customers, partners, or cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Ability to translate business requirements and customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design and build high-impact applications and AI-powered workflows on Replit, taking projects from initial concept through production deployment.
  • Design secure, scalable architectures connecting Replit with customers’ existing systems, data, application programming interfaces, identity providers, and infrastructure.
  • Integrate with customers’ technology stacks, including single sign-on, data warehouses, internal application programming interfaces, and software-as-a-service systems.
  • Serve as technical owner for complex enterprise implementations, identify blockers, debug issues, and drive projects through successful production adoption.
  • Understand how enterprises use Replit and translate field insights, technical constraints, and recurring customer needs into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences.
  • Ship quickly and iterate based on customer feedback and usage data.
  • Turn field patterns into templates, playbooks, and product requirements, and ship effective patterns back to the platform.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, consulting, or another highly technical customer-facing role.
  • Experience building and deploying AI-powered applications, agents, or developer tools.
  • Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, application deployment, databases, application programming interfaces, authentication, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Experience integrating software into complex enterprise environments, including identity and access management, internal data sources, application programming interfaces, and existing developer infrastructure.

About the company

Replit runs a browser-based platform where people build software by describing it in plain English, and its AI agent handles every step from writing the code to putting the finished app online. After launching Replit Agent in 2024, it became one of the best-known names in vibe coding, the practice of building software from plain-language prompts. Users chat with the agent from a browser or phone as it plans, writes, and tests each change, then publish websites and mobile apps with built-in databases on Replit's own hosting. Individuals pay monthly subscriptions that include AI usage credits, and companies buy enterprise plans with added security controls. Replit was founded in 2016 and is based in Foster City, California.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$872.2M

Headquarters

Foster City, California

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Equity has tripled in value: Replit's valuation jumped from $3 billion in September 2025 to $9 billion in March 2026.
  • Hiring is accelerating: opening London in September 2026, Replit said it expects to double headcount within a year.
  • Sales cover AI costs: Replit's revenue had exceeded direct costs, including AI models, for over a year by May 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Its closest rival is worth more: Swedish startup Lovable hit $13.3 billion in August 2026, versus Replit's $9 billion.
  • Expect crunch weeks: Replit says engineers often work up to 16 hours a day in sprints before big launches.
  • A key supplier competes: Claude maker Anthropic's own coding agent reached an estimated $2.5 billion yearly revenue by early 2026.

What makes Replit unique

  • Security is its enterprise edge: each deployed app runs in its own isolated Google Cloud project with a private database.
  • Engineers manage AI agents: per-person code output nearly tripled from January to June 2026 as Replit doubled its engineering team.
  • Its corporate reach tops rival Lovable's: Replit had users at 85% of the Fortune 500 in September 2026, versus two-thirds.

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Benefits

  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Your choice of new equipment & software
  • Health, dental, & vision insurance
  • Autonomy at work
  • Flexible work hours
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Monthly health & wellness stipend
  • Generous parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO (2 weeks minimum required)
  • 401k matching
  • Commuter benefits
  • Expensed lunch

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

-8%
PR Newswire
Oct 22nd, 2026
Replit expands government business and hires ex-AWS executive Michael Greenwald for corporate affairs

Replit, the software creation platform, is expanding its government business worldwide and has hired Michael Greenwald, a former US Treasury diplomat and Amazon Web Services executive, as president of corporate affairs. Replit says government agencies at national, state, and local levels in the US and overseas, including the Middle East, are adopting its platform. Once a single department in a company uses Replit, the company's business with it doubles within six months and grows to 400% over 12 months. Greenwald spent nearly a decade at the US Treasury and was its first attaché to Qatar and Kuwait. At AWS, he was director of global executive relations. In Jordan, the Ministry of Education used Replit to build an AI learning assistant that reaches 1.3 million users across 5,800 schools. Replit also opened its first international office, in London, last month.

TechCrunch
Oct 16th, 2026
Replit drops Anthropic for OpenAI over cost and performance, CEO says

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, chief executive officer and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt. He cited cost, partnership and performance. "I think ChatGPT is better now," Masad said, adding that Replit's internal and public benchmarks show Sol and Astra build vibe-coded applications from scratch more effectively. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August. An unnamed person familiar with the matter said the Anthropic partnership was still in place. A September blog post cited Anthropic's Claude models as running in Replit Agent's production environment. Masad said enterprise contracts made up about 15% of revenue this year, up from 2% last year. More than 50% of revenue is B2B.

Tribe Techie
Sep 28th, 2026
Replit acquires Atta to bring AI business analysis in-app

Replit has acquired AI analytics startup Atta to enable users to perform business analysis and charting directly within its chat interface without writing SQL. The deal, announced on 25 September, brings Atta's data visualisation technology into Replit's platform. Co-founders Omar Shaik and Amine Ben Khalifa have joined the company. Financial terms were not disclosed. The integration is live through Replit Agent, allowing users to upload datasets, ask questions in plain language, and receive interactive charts. The system automatically handles analysis and selects appropriate visualisations based on queries. This expands Replit's capabilities beyond software development into business data analysis, aiming to reduce reliance on specialist analytics workflows and streamline decision-making for lean teams.

Tech.eu
Sep 8th, 2026
US AI coding startup Replit to hire 100 staff in London, mocks Silicon Valley 'monoculture

US AI coding startup Replit has opened its first overseas office in London, with plans to grow its team from 20 to around 100 staff by early next year. The San Francisco-based company joins other US tech firms expanding in London's King's Cross, including OpenAI and Anthropic. CEO Amjad Masad praised London's diversity compared to Silicon Valley's "monoculture", noting the capital offers exposure to artists, finance professionals and filmmakers alongside tech workers. London mayor Sadiq Khan attended the launch event. Replit specialises in AI-assisted coding tools and claims over 60 million users globally, including clients at 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies. The firm raised $400 million in March at a $9 billion valuation, with backers including Databricks Ventures and Y Combinator.

PR Newswire
Sep 8th, 2026
Replit opens London office to double headcount and upskill 100 disadvantaged young people

Replit, the agentic creation platform with over 60 million users worldwide, has opened its first international office in London. The company, founded in 2016, celebrated the opening with London Mayor Sadiq Khan at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The San Francisco-based firm will use London as its European operations hub. Replit plans to double its headcount and investment in the coming year. European enterprise customers already using the platform include PwC, Ernst & Young, Mercedes-Benz Group, TrustPilot and Hg. Replit announced a partnership with The Lord Mayor's Appeal charity to pilot a four-week coding course for 100 young Londoners not in education, employment or training. The programme aims to provide vital coding skills for employment opportunities.