Forward Deployed Engineer

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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 pay to win. Bobyard targets competitive top-of-market compensation because we hire people who ship and drive real impact — and we aim to reward that, including through variable pay tied to performance. Individual compensation is determined by role, experience, and contribution, at Bobyard's discretion.