Forward Deployed Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Bobyard. San Francisco · full-time · $130,000–$165,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Work inside general contractors’ environments to find high-value problems and deliver full-stack solutions
- Take unclear customer needs from discovery through design, data modeling, deployment and ongoing monitoring
- Use field work to shape the roadmap, turning useful one-off fixes into product capabilities
- Test prototypes with users, measure results, then expand solutions that prove effective
- Deploy and troubleshoot on AWS or GCP while keeping systems reliable as usage grows
What you bring
- You bring full-stack engineering skills, spanning frontend work through infrastructure without relying on handoffs
- You can design systems and reason about architecture and performance, with experience scaling systems or the ability to learn quickly
- You handle ambiguous requirements, choose priorities across parallel work and remain accountable for delivery
- You’re comfortable working directly with customers and partnering with design
Who this fits
This suits a mid-level engineer who enjoys customer-facing work, fast delivery and shaping incomplete requirements. The role is based on-site in San Francisco. You’ll build and operate your solutions, with weekly releases and priorities that shift as customer needs become clearer.
From the employer
Position Overview
Forward Deployed Engineers at Bobyard work directly with our most strategic customers — general contractors — to solve critical problems end-to-end.
You’ll embed with customer teams, understand their workflows, and ship solutions directly in their environment. From prototype to production in days. The patterns you establish become core product features.
This role combines software engineering, product thinking, and customer partnership. High autonomy, high impact.
What You’ll Do
Embed & ship: Work directly in customer instances. Identify high-leverage problems. Build full-stack: React, Django, PostgreSQL. Ship in weeks, not quarters.
Own outcomes: Define ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions. Design systems that handle 10x usage.
Bridge product ↔ customer: Your field work informs roadmap. Convert one-off solutions into platform capabilities.
Full lifecycle: Discovery, system design, data modeling, infra, frontend, deployment, monitoring. You build it, run it, and scale it.
Ensure reliability: AWS / GCP. Deploy, monitor, debug. Ensure reliability.
Validate and scale: Prototype with real users. Measure impact. Invest in what works.
You Are
High-ownership: Comfortable with ambiguity. Create clarity and deliver.
Product-minded: Understand why we build. Strong product judgment. Partner effectively with design.
Technically strong: System design, performance, architecture. Experience scaling systems or learn quickly.
Full-stack: Frontend through infra. No handoffs. Accountable for outcomes.
Fast learner: Adopt new tools and ship.
Startup-focused: Prefer impact and speed over process. Comfortable with customer-facing work.
Reliable under pressure: Manage parallel priorities. Sequence work and deliver.
A note on pace
We ship weekly, and priorities move as we learn from customers. Requirements are often incomplete when work starts, and you'll be expected to shape them. If that pace excites you, you'll fit in well.
Benefits
Competitive salary plus equity options
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Catered lunch in the office
$70 a month toward your commute
Team happy hours and events
Build a category-defining company with a small, driven team
Come build with us!
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