Forward Deployed Engineer (Integrations)

Youll work directly with customers to get Firecrawl integrated running and scaling inside their products. That means writing real code debugging real systems and turning customer needs into shipped solutions fast. This is not a support role. Its a technical ownership role with a customer face.

Salary Range: $160000$220000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your countrys cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: Range: Up to 0.10%

Location: San Francisco CA or Remote (Americas UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 3 years or equivalent shipped systems

Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API just over a year weve hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get clean structured web data.

Were a small fast-moving technical team building essential infrastructure for the AI era. We ship fast and deep.

What Youll Do

• Own technical integration delivery for priority customers from first API call through production scale

• Write TypeScript/ code to build customize and debug integrations with payments systems cloud platforms and third-party APIs

• Debug complex real-world issues live with customers crawling edge cases data pipeline failures infra constraints

• Build reusable solutions and playbooks that turn one-off customer problems into repeatable wins for the team

• Translate customer friction into clear product and engineering insights and route them to the right people

• Work closely with core engineering on reliability performance and DX improvements driven by what youre seeing in the field

What Were Looking For

A strong TypeScript/ engineer. You write clean production-quality code and youre fast. Youve built integrations with external APIs and you understand what makes them brittle.

Experienced with payments and cloud platforms. Youve worked with Stripe or similar billing systems. Youve integrated with GCP Vercel or comparable cloud providers. You dont need to Google the basics.

Solid on backend and data fundamentals. You can design a system model a schema and reason about data at scale. You know when to reach for a relational database and when not to.

Security-aware. You understand the common auth patterns OAuth API keys JWTs and you know where the traps are when integrating third-party systems.

High ownership with customers. Youre comfortable in ambiguous high-stakes situations with real customers. You communicate clearly set expectations honestly and follow through.

Backgrounds that often do well: integration or platform engineers solutions engineers who write real code early engineers at API-first startups who owned customer-facing technical work.

What Were NOT Looking For

• Engineers who hand off customer problems to someone else after the first call

• Solutions engineers who demo well but cant ship production code

• Anyone who needs a fully-scoped ticket before they can start moving

A Note On Pace

Were a small team doing a lot. Roles here are loosely defined on purpose youll own things that dont have a clear owner yet and thats a feature not a bug. If you need your scope fully defined before you can move this probably isnt the right fit. If you want to build something that matters inside one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world lets talk.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

Salary that makes sense $160000$220000/year (SF U.S.-based) based on impact not tenure

Own a piece Up to 0.1% equity in what youre helping build

Generous PTO 15 days mandatory anything after 24 days just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge

Parental leave 12 weeks fully paid for moms and dads

Wellness stipend $100/month for the gym therapy massages or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development Expense up to $1000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

Team offsites A change of scenery minus the trust falls

Sabbatical 3 paid months off after 4 years do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

Full coverage no red tape Medical dental and vision (100% for employees 50% for spouse/kids) no weird loopholes just care that works

Life & Disability insurance Employer-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance coverage for lifes curveballs

Supplemental options Optional accident critical illness hospital indemnity and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

Doctegrity telehealth Talk to a doctor from your couch

401(k) plan Retirement might be a ways off but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

Pet insurance Because fur babies are family too

Available to SF-based employees

SF HQ perks Snacks drinks team lunches intense ping pong and peak startup energy

E-Bike transportation A loaner electric bike to get you around the city on us

Interview Process

Application Review Send us your work: integrations youve built systems youve owned or customer-facing technical projects youve shipped. A quick note on what excites you about this role specifically.

Intro Chat (20 min) Quick alignment call. Well talk about what youve built how you work with customers under pressure and what youd want to tackle first.

Deep Dive Chat (60 min) A hands-on integration problem. Were evaluating how you debug how you communicate your reasoning and how you make decisions when the requirements are incomplete.

Founder Chat (30 min) Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (12 weeks) Work on a real integration challenge with an actual customer use case. We evaluate on code quality problem-solving and how you handle ambiguity.

Decision We move fast after the trial.

If you want to be the engineer who gets Firecrawl running inside the products that matter and youre as comfortable with customers as you are with code this is your shot.

Apply now.

Required Experience:

IC