Ampersand Rwanda Ltd

Ampersand Rwanda Ltd

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSAgentic AICRMERP

About the role

  • Technical Recommendations - Understand each customer's stack, integration goals, data model, and constraints - then advise on approaches that are maintainable, scalable, and easy for their team to operate long-term.
  • Production Code - Write production-quality code inside customer codebases when the work calls for it.
  • You're comfortable in unfamiliar environments and hold a high bar for what you ship.

Responsibilities

  • Engineering Partnership - Partner with the core engineering team to surface product gaps, bugs, and recurring implementation patterns from the field.
  • We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly inside customer environments, implementing and extending Ampersand in a way that makes each deployment succeed and teaches us something we can build on.
  • Customer Partnership - Provide white-glove support and serve as a genuine thought partner to customer engineering and product teams - not just a vendor contact.
  • Direct experience working with customers to solve technical problems and deliver outcomes
  • This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the connectivity infrastructure for AI.

Nice to have

  • Experience with developer tools, infrastructure platforms, enterprise software, or AI-native products is a strong plus

Skills

  • Solid understanding of APIs, integrations, distributed systems, or cloud-based architectures

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, HSA
  • Up to 4 weeks PTO
  • Seizing this moment requires passion, hard work, and continuous learning.

Company info

  • Ampersand was founded in 2022 by Ayan Barua and Lauren Long - two engineers and repeat founders with a rare combination of developer tools and SaaS experience. You can learn more about our full team here https://www.withampersand.com/about.
  • We've raised Series A funding from top-tier investors known for their early-stage bets on generational companies like Anthropic, Apple, Twilio, Supabase, and Vercel.
  • Together, we believe:
  • This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the connectivity infrastructure for AI. Seizing this moment requires passion, hard work, and continuous learning. At the same time, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
  • At Ampersand, we are building scalable integration infrastructure that delivers real-time context to AI agents in seconds.
  • Our declarative platform, 150+ open-source connectors, and embeddable UI components give developers the building blocks they need to ship deep, bidirectional integrations.
  • We power cutting-edge AI companies like 11x, Orb, Square, and Crunchbase.
  • Almost every engineering team that has evaluated us against other solutions has chosen to use Ampersand.
  • As our product and brand evolve, we're looking for great people to join our experienced team of former Firebase, AWS, Meta and Square engineers and operators.
  • Ampersand was founded in 2022 by Ayan Barua and Lauren Long - two engineers and repeat founders with a rare combination of developer tools and SaaS experience.
  • You can learn more about our full team here https://www.withampersand.com/about.
  • Velocity comes from great strategic decisions, not doing the 99 things you don't have to do.
  • In five core values that shape how we work every day: Craft, Customer Empathy, Ownership Mindset, Velocity, and Humility.
  • Customer Deployments - Lead end-to-end technical implementations with strategic customers, from discovery through successful adoption.

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