Firecrawl
Forward Deployed Engineer (Integrations)
3w ago
160000 –260000 USD / yearUSAMiddleRemotetypescriptnode.jsapidebugging
Work directly with customers to build, customize, and scale technical integrations using TypeScript/Node.js in a fast-moving AI infrastructure company.
Responsibilities
- Own technical integration delivery for priority customers — from first API call through production scale
- Write TypeScript/Node.js code to build, customize, and debug integrations with payments systems, cloud platforms, and third-party APIs
- Debug complex real-world issues live with customers — crawling edge cases, data pipeline failures, infra constraints
- Build reusable solutions and playbooks that turn one-off customer problems into repeatable wins for the team
- Translate customer friction into clear product and engineering insights and route them to the right people
- Work closely with core engineering on reliability, performance, and DX improvements driven by what you're seeing in the field
Requirements
- A strong TypeScript/Node.js engineer. You write clean, production-quality code and you're fast. You've built integrations with external APIs and you understand what makes them brittle.
- Experienced with payments and cloud platforms. You've worked with Stripe or similar billing systems. You've integrated with GCP, Vercel, or comparable cloud providers. You don't need to Google the basics.
- Solid on backend and data fundamentals. You can design a system, model a schema, and reason about data at scale. You know when to reach for a relational database and when not to.
- Security-aware. You understand the common auth patterns — OAuth, API keys, JWTs — and you know where the traps are when integrating third-party systems.
- High ownership with customers. You're comfortable in ambiguous, high-stakes situations with real customers. You communicate clearly, set expectations honestly, and follow through.
- Backgrounds that often do well: integration or platform engineers, solutions engineers who write real code, early engineers at API-first startups who owned customer-facing technical work.
How to apply
- Application Review — Send us your work: integrations you've built, systems you've owned, or customer-facing technical projects you've shipped. A quick note on what excites you about this role specifically.
- Intro Chat (~20 min) — Quick alignment call. We'll talk about what you've built, how you work with customers under pressure, and what you'd want to tackle first.
- Deep Dive Chat (~60 min) — A hands-on integration problem. We're evaluating how you debug, how you communicate your reasoning, and how you make decisions when the requirements are incomplete.
- Founder Chat (~30 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.
- Paid Work Trial (1–2 weeks) — Work on a real integration challenge with an actual customer use case. We evaluate on code quality, problem-solving, and how you handle ambiguity.
- Decision — We move fast after the trial.
- If you want to be the engineer who gets Firecrawl running inside the products that matter — and you're as comfortable with customers as you are with code — this is your shot.
- 👉 Apply now.
Other
- You'll work directly with customers to get Firecrawl integrated, running, and scaling inside their products. That means writing real code, debugging real systems, and turning customer needs into shipped solutions — fast. This is not a support role. It's a technical ownership role with a customer face.
- Salary Range: $160,000 to $260,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.)
- Equity Range: Up to 0.10%
- Location: San Francisco, CA (or Bay Area)
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Experience: 3+ years or equivalent shipped systems
- Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required
- Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just over a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get clean, structured web data.
- We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure for the AI era. We ship fast and deep.
- Engineers who hand off customer problems to someone else after the first call
- Solutions engineers who demo well but can't ship production code
- Anyone who needs a fully-scoped ticket before they can start moving
- We're a small team doing a lot. Roles here are loosely defined on purpose — you'll own things that don't have a clear owner yet, and that's a feature, not a bug. If you need your scope fully defined before you can move, this probably isn't the right fit. If you want to build something that matters inside one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world, let's talk.
- Salary that makes sense — $160,000–$260,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
- Own a piece — Up to 0.1% equity in what you're helping build
- Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
- Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads
- Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
- Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
- Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
- Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
- Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
- Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
- Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
- Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
- 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
- Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit
- Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
- SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
- E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us