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Forward Deployed Engineer - 12 mois - Lyon

In short

This is a freelance Forward Deployed Engineer role in Lyon, France, for a company building AI-powered applications and agents through "vibe coding" with tools like Claude Code and Gemini. The engineer works end-to-end (design, build, deploy, run) directly with business teams such as Finance, HR or Legal, and also mentors citizen developers. It requires 5-7 years of development experience, strong Python/TypeScript and GCP skills, applied AI/agent expertise, and real autonomy working solo with non-technical stakeholders.

Contract type
Freelance / Contract
Daily rate
Salary based on profile
Location
Lyon, France
Work mode
Hybrid
The need
1.Understand the need directly from the business requester, through daily interaction.
2.Build an application or an agent within a few days, mostly using AI ("vibe coding"): prototype, test with users, rapid iterations.
3.Deploy to production respecting the group's governance and architecture: code compliance (SonarQube, GitHub, catalogue), pre-production, validation committees, automated deployment.
4.Keep it running: handle change requests, monitor, optimize costs (AI models and cloud). Principle: you build it, you run it.
5.Support citizen developers (5 to 10 business collaborators eventually): onboarding, training on standards, reviewing their apps.
Technical skills expected
AI-assisted development
•Delivery role: daily and advanced practice of Claude Code or an equivalent, writing specifications, critical review of generated code, tests
•Gemini CLI / Antigravity, configuration of code agents (skills, plugins)
•Immersion role: spend several weeks in a team (Finance, HR, Legal) to understand a process, redesign it to be AI-compatible, then build it as an agent or application. Comfortable facilitating workshops and defending a Business Case.
Development
Python and TypeScript, a REST API (FastAPI or equivalent), a web framework (React or Next.js), SQL, Git, automated tests
Event-driven architecture
Cloud
GCP: Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, IAM, Secret Manager, IAP; Docker, Terraform, Airflow
Applied AI
Agents (tool calling, orchestration), MCP servers, RAG, context management, output evaluation, token cost tracking
ADK (Agent Development Kit), multi-model (Gemini, Claude)
Industrialization CI/CD (GitHub Actions), quality (SonarQube), observability Backstage
IS and integration
API integration, OAuth / SSO, fine-grained user rights management
Salesforce (Agentforce), HR and payroll tools
Security and compliance
GDPR, processing of sensitive data (HR, payroll), principle of least privilege, ethical sensitivity and AI Act awareness
Languages
Fluent French, professional English
Profile sought
Developer who handles the entire product chain (scoping, simple UX, code, deployment, run). Delivers complete apps to replace a SaaS license or cover an unmet need.
Short cycle: a few days between the first exchange and a testable version.
Behavioral skills expected
•Real autonomy: works alone on a subject, without a development team around.
•Sense of product and ROI: knows how to explain why an app deserves to exist, and when not to build it.
•Ease with non-technical stakeholders: scopes a need with a Finance or HR person without jargon, rephrases, reframes.
•Teaching ability: passes on standards to non-developers, reviews their work.
•End-to-end responsibility: takes ownership of running what they deliver.
•Rigor on governance: respects validation processes without bypassing them, and evolves them through proof.
•Pragmatism: delivers a useful version fast, rather than a perfect version late.
Seniority and references
At least 5 to 7 years of development experience, including at least 2 apps or AI agents actually in production. References requested.

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