You will manage a small but high-impact engineering team while staying deeply involved in building Campfire’s core product. You’ll lead technical direction, mentor engineers, drive execution, and still write production code.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer who wants to grow into engineering leadership — or a current manager who still loves being hands-on.

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the technical direction and quality of Campfire’s core product areas.

• Design and review system architecture, APIs, and data models.

• Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

• Stay hands-on: contribute significant production code.
  

Team Leadership & Coaching

• Manage and mentor a team of full-stack and back-end engineers.

• Run sprint planning, technical reviews, and execution rituals.

• Set a high bar for code quality, reliability, and ownership.

• Provide continuous feedback, coaching, and career development for your team.
  

Execution & Delivery

• Own delivery of major features and technical initiatives.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Customer teams.

• Break down complex projects into clear plans with milestones.

• Keep the team focused, fast, and shipping.
  

Culture & Hiring

• Help define engineering best practices and playbooks.

• Interview, hire, and onboard new engineers as the team grows.

• Build a culture of ownership, customer focus, and high standards.
  

We’re Looking For Someone Who

Has Strong Technical Depth

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong experience with Python, React/NextJS, and modern frontend tooling (Tailwind preferred).

• Experience designing scalable APIs, databases, and backend systems.

• Has led large features or systems end-to-end.
  

Is a Natural Player–Coach

• Has managed engineers or acted as a technical lead on teams.

• Enjoys mentoring, reviewing code, and unblocking others.

• Still loves to write code and stay in the details.
  

Thrives in Startup Environments

• Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast.

• Highly autonomous and accountable.

• Makes pragmatic decisions and takes ownership end-to-end.
  

Ideal Candidate

You are:

• Motivated by building meaningful products.

• Energized by coaching and growing engineers.

• Excited to build early infrastructure, not just maintain it.

• Looking to make a visible impact in a high-growth company.