Ampersand

Forward Deployed Engineer

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end technical implementations with strategic customers from discovery through successful adoption.
  • Understand customer technology stacks, integration goals, data models, and constraints, and recommend maintainable and scalable approaches.
  • Write production-quality code in customer codebases when needed.
  • Partner with the core engineering team to identify product gaps, bugs, and recurring implementation patterns.
  • Create reusable documentation, examples, playbooks, and product contributions from customer learnings.
  • Provide white-glove technical support and act as a trusted partner to customer engineering and product teams.

Requirements

  • Have 4+ years of software engineering, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical experience.
  • Write production-quality code and work effectively in unfamiliar codebases.
  • Have direct experience working with customers to solve technical problems and deliver outcomes.
  • Understand APIs, integrations, distributed systems, or cloud-based architectures.
  • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Take ownership of outcomes from discovery through delivery.
  • Experience with developer tools, infrastructure platforms, enterprise software, or AI-native products is preferred.
  • Familiarity with CRM, ERP, fintech, or other business systems is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with an optional HSA.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Free team lunch on in-office days.
  • Flexible PTO with 2–4 weeks recommended, plus 11 company holidays and separate paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents, covering birth, adoption, foster care, and surrogacy.
  • Up to 10 paid days of compassionate leave for family building, loss, caregiving, and other major life events.
  • Team socials and retreats.

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Forward Deployed
Ampersand

About Ampersand

501-1,000 employees
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