Campfire
Director, Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Posted
- 18 September 2026 (12 days ago)
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About this role
Campfire is building the AI-native ERP for modern finance teams, backed by a $65M Series B from Accel and Ribbit Capital. Our engineering org is ~30 people today and growing to ~100, and we're hiring Directors of Engineering to lead that scale-up. Each Director owns a segment of the org — roughly 25–40 engineers across 3–5 teams — and will report to the CTO alongside two peer Directors. This is a manager-of-managers role: you'll hire and develop engineering managers, shape team structure within your area, and own how your teams plan, ship, and operate.
Responsibilities
- Own the org design for your area: team boundaries, charters, and staffing plans
- Lead, coach, and hold accountable 3–5 engineering managers; develop first-time managers and grow future leaders from the IC ranks
- Drive hiring for your teams: headcount planning, recruiting, interviewer training, and closing senior candidates
- Run planning and delivery for your area: roadmap alignment with product, quarterly commitments, and predictable execution across teams
- Uphold operational rigor expected of a financial-systems company: on-call, incident response, SLOs, and release practices that hold up to enterprise and audit scrutiny
- Partner with peer Directors, security, and compliance on cross-cutting concerns — shared platform, SOC 2, enterprise security reviews, AI governance
- Set and uphold engineering standards — code review, testing, observability, architecture decisions — across a Python/Django, PostgreSQL, Next.js, and AWS stack
Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineers and 2+ years managing managers
- Led a group of 20+ engineers with multiple managers reporting to you, through a period of rapid growth
- Built or operated systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable: fintech, accounting, payments, or ERP
- Technically credible with senior ICs — able to review architecture and weigh in on data-model and infrastructure decisions
- Comfortable operating as one of several peer leaders: collaborative, low-ego, and effective at working across org boundaries
- Hands-on interest in running LLMs and agents in production
- Clear, direct communicator who writes well and gives hard feedback kindly
Bonus
- Experience taking a product through enterprise security and compliance (SOC 2, SSO/SAML, vendor reviews)
- Familiarity with revenue recognition, GAAP close, or accounting integrations (Stripe, Deel, Rippling, banks, payroll)
- Experience with MCP or building integrations for AI platforms
- Depth in Python and relational databases
Work location
- 300 Montgomery St Suite 500 San Francisco, California 94104, US
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Published 18 September 2026, last checked 12 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.