Forward Deployed Engineer

Posted One Month Ago
2 Locations
In-Office
180K-220K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics • Financial Services
Campfire is the AI-first ERP powering next-gen finance & accounting teams.
The Role
Take AI-generated CEO code changes from prototype to production. Triage pull requests, reconstruct intent, rewrite or split code, add types, tests, error handling, safe migrations, and deployment safeguards. Protect accounting and ledger correctness, enforce LLM usage limits, maintain Sentry reliability conventions, and improve tooling to prevent recurring AI-generated mistakes. The role requires strong Python production experience, excellent code review judgment, candid communication, and the ability to work rapidly with the CEO and customer priorities.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.

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

Skills Required

  • 4+ years of experience shipping production Python
  • Django experience
  • PostgreSQL experience
  • Celery experience
  • TypeScript and React experience
  • Excellent code review judgment
  • Ability to assess whether code should be patched, rewritten, split, or removed
  • Ability to reconstruct intent from incomplete specifications
  • Strong communication, candor, and willingness to challenge CEO decisions
  • Ability to work quickly in a high-volume pull request environment
  • Accounting fluency, including double-entry accounting, accruals, ASC 606, or month-end close
  • Experience with AI coding tools and their failure modes
  • Experience with financial integrations such as Plaid, Ramp, Brex, Stripe, or payroll providers
  • Early-stage startup experience
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The Company
HQ: Mount Juliet, TN
44 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Campfire is the AI-native ERP for mid-size and enterprise companies to close fast and scale faster. Features include a powerful general ledger, invoicing, billing, revenue accounting and reporting, financial statements, AI-powered conversational reporting, and automated accounting workflows such as bank reconciliation. The product is natively integrated with industry leading solutions such as Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce, and has over 100+ API endpoints to build custom integrations and workflows. Campfire's customers range from 50 to 5,000 employees with a variety of business models including SaaS, usage, consulting and transactions including customers such as Replit and Advisor360. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator and Capital49 (Airwallex).

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