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# Forward Deployed Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f935f5733b809a63

Campfire posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $180,000–$220,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with Campfire's largest enterprise customers, owning technical onboarding from kickoff through go-live. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026.

- [Campfire](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/campfire)

Posted Sep 30, 2026 by Campfire · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026

**$180,000–$220,000** San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with Campfire's largest enterprise customers, owning technical onboarding from kickoff through go-live.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$180K–$220K Above the median

Midpoint $200K · median $190K

This job $180K to $220K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations (not covered)

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Technical lead

### What they ask for

Experience

- **4+ years** software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Solutions and customer engineering**
- **Forward deployed engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there?

Which of these have you used in production?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: San Francisco, CA

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Campfire

Posted by Campfire on Sep 30, 2026

### About Campfire

Campfire is an AI-native ERP for financial operations. Accounting teams and fractional CFO firms at fast-growing companies use it to run their close, revenue recognition, AP/AR, consolidations and reporting. Ember, our AI layer, works alongside accountants on the ledger itself.

You'll be the engineer embedded with our largest enterprise customers, owning their technical onboarding from kickoff to go-live. You write real code — integrations, scripts, tooling — and turn what you learn in the field into product improvements. You report into Engineering and work side by side with Sales, Implementation and Product. **
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### What you'll do

- Lead technical onboarding for enterprise customers: scoping, integrations, configuration, go-live
- Support customers with complex or custom data migrations from legacy ERPs and GLs (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks)
- Build and configure integrations with banks, billing, payroll and HRIS systems
- Write production-quality code, scripts and tooling to speed up each rollout
- Be the customer's technical point of contact; run working sessions with controllers and finance leads
- Turn repeated field work into product: file clear specs, ship fixes, and build reusable onboarding tools
- Partner with Sales on technical discovery and solution design for late-stage enterprise deals

### What you bring

- 4+ years as a software engineer, solutions engineer or FDE
- Strong in Python or TypeScript and SQL; comfortable with APIs, data pipelines and messy data
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects end to end
- Clear communicator with both engineers and finance teams
- Ownership mindset: you get customers live, not just unblocked
- Willing to travel to customer sites as needed

### Nice to have

- Accounting knowledge: GL, close process, revenue recognition (ASC 606)
- Hands-on ERP migration or implementation experience
- Background at a fintech, ERP or enterprise SaaS company
- Experience with enterprise security and compliance reviews

### Success in the first year

- Enterprise customers go live on time
- Onboarding time drops through tooling you built
- Field feedback ships as product improvements
- Customers name you as a reason they chose to expand

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