Forward Deployed Engineer

Bobyard; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bobyard is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to work in San Francisco, collaborating directly with customers to provide innovative solutions. This full-time position involves close integration with customer teams to solve problems, ensuring reliability, and contributing to product development.

The ideal candidate is technically strong, product-minded, and comfortable with ambiguity. You will be accountable for full lifecycle delivery in a dynamic environment focused on impact.

Qualifications

• Strong product judgment with a focus on why we build.
• Experience in scaling systems effectively.
• Ability to deliver results under ambiguity and pressure.

Responsibilities

• Work directly in customer instances to identify and solve problems.
• Define and deliver scalable solutions based on customer feedback.
• Build and run complete solutions, from frontend to infrastructure.

Skills

Full-stack development

System design

Customer partnership

Technical architecture

AWS / GCP

Data modeling

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: 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.

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.

Comp Philosophy

We structure compensation to be simple: cash for stability, variable for performance, equity for ownership.

Everything ties directly to what you ship and the impact you drive.