Campfire
Fintech & PaymentsDirect Ashby career site

Director, Engineering

Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
10+ years
Listed
23 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Python
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Next.js

Also useful

  • fintech systems
  • SOC 2 compliance
  • LLM production operations

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

About Campfire

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.

Read the original posting

From Campfire's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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