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Forward Deployed Engineer

Campfire · San Francisco · On-site

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About Campfire

Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for lean finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount. Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and Techstars.

About the role

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) Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

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...

Read the full posting on Campfire's site ↗

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