--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Campfire' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-campfire-san-francisco-nybag16ghq60' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-12' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer at Campfire - **Company:** Campfire - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/f634928c-c977-4cd9-95ae-ec0ab75fdcba ## Job description ## 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 ## About Campfire ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses - **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets. ## Products & Services - **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync. - **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.). - **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation. - **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction. - **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more. - **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls. All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate) - **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%) - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360 - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on. - **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies. - **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance. - **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves. - **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support. ## Strategic Focus - **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features. - **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies. - **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City. - **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.” - **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers. ## Sources 1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/) 2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers) 3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire) 4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire) 5. 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