Forward Deployed Engineer

Bobyard, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bobyard, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco to work closely with strategic customers, solving problems end-to-end. This role entails direct engagement with customer teams, building innovative solutions across the entire technology stack.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a startup environment, bringing technical expertise and a product-oriented mindset. Responsibilities include solution delivery from prototype to production, ensuring system design quality, and validating impact through real user testing.

Qualifications

• High-ownership attitude with the ability to handle ambiguity.
• Strong product-minded approach with effective partnering skills.
• Technically strong in system design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Work directly in customer instances to solve high-leverage problems.
• Define ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions.
• Convert field insights into platform capabilities.

Skills

Full-stack development

System design

Product judgment

Performance optimization

Customer partnership

Job description

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 with 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. Build, run, and scale.
• Validate and scale: Prototype with real users, measure impact, and invest in what works.

You Are

• High‑ownership: Comfortable with ambiguity, create clarity, and deliver.
• Product‑minded: Understand why we build, strong product judgment, and partner effectively with design.
• Technically strong: System design, performance, and 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.

Details

Full‑time, in‑person San Francisco. We value learning rate and proven impact over pedigree. If you ship high‑quality software that customers depend on, let’s talk.you.