Forward Deployed Engineer

Bobyard, Inc

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering or similar roles.
  • Proficient in full-stack development: React, Django, PostgreSQL.
  • Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and performance.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP for building reliable systems.
  • Proven ability to work directly with customers and convert feedback into actionable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customer teams to identify and solve critical problems.
  • Deliver scalable, full-stack solutions in short timeframes.
  • Inform product roadmaps with insights gained from fieldwork.
  • Manage the entire lifecycle of product features from discovery to deployment.
  • Build resilient systems with a focus on uptime and incident response.
  • Prototype solutions with user feedback to validate and scale implementations.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment that values autonomy and innovation.
  • Opportunity to work directly with strategic customers and influence product development.
  • Fast-paced role with a focus on impactful outcomes over process.
  • Commitment to learning and adapting new technologies quickly.
Full Job Description
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.
What You'll Do
  • 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 12 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. Build observable, resilient systems. Own uptime and incident response.
  • Validate and scale: Prototype with real users. Measure impact. Invest in what works.

You Are
  • 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.

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