You're a strong TypeScript/Node.js engineer with at least 3 years of experience building production-quality code and integrating with external APIs, particularl
Work type: remote
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)
Salary: $160,000 – $220,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You're a strong TypeScript/Node.js engineer with at least 3 years of experience building production-quality code and integrating with external APIs, particularly in payments and cloud platforms. Experience with backend and data fundamentals, along with security awareness regarding common authentication patterns, is crucial. **What makes it worth a look...** firecrawl is offering a fully remote position in the Americas with a salary range of $160,000–$220,000 per year. You'll also receive up to 0.10% equity. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Write clean TypeScript/Node.js code and have experience with payments systems like Stripe or cloud platforms like GCP/Vercel. * Can debug complex real-world issues, including crawling edge cases and data pipeline failures. * Are comfortable taking ownership of technical integrations from initial contact through production scale with customers. * Understand common authentication patterns like OAuth, API keys, and JWTs.
# Forward Deployed Engineer (Integrations)
You'll 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. It's a technical ownership role with a customer face.
Salary Range: $160,000–$220,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: [https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation](https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation).)
Equity 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 call. In just over a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get clean, structured web data.
We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure for the AI era. We ship fast and deep.
# What You'll Do
A strong TypeScript/Node.js engineer. You write clean, production-quality code and you're fast. You've built integrations with external APIs and you understand what makes them brittle.
Experienced with payments and cloud platforms. You've worked with Stripe or similar billing systems. You've integrated with GCP, Vercel, or comparable cloud providers. You don't 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. You're 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 We're NOT Looking For
We're a small team doing a lot. Roles here are loosely defined on purpose — you'll own things that don't have a clear owner yet, and that's a feature, not a bug. If you need your scope fully defined before you can move, this probably isn't the right fit. If you want to build something that matters inside one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world, let's talk.
# Benefits & Perks
## Available to all employees
Salary that makes sense — $160,000–$220,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — Up to 0.1% equity in what you're 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 $1,000/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 life's 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 you've built, systems you've owned, or customer-facing technical projects you've shipped. A quick note on what excites you about this role specifically.
Intro Chat (~20 min) — Quick alignment call. We'll talk about what you've built, how you work with customers under pressure, and what you'd want to tackle first.
Deep Dive Chat (~60 min) — A hands-on integration problem. We're 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 (1–2 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 you're as comfortable with customers as you are with code — this is your shot.
👉 Apply now.