Forward Deployed Engineer

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