Software Engineer

campfire; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision premiums %

Commuter reimbursement up to $200/mo

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

2 weeks remote work

Job summary

Campfire is an AI-native ERP system serving finance teams at fast-growing companies. As a Software Engineer, you will own real product surface area from design through production, building across Python/Django backend and Next.js/React frontend for critical ledger and revenue workflows.

You will work close to customer needs, see your work in production in days, mentor juniors, and apply AI coding tools in daily work. This role offers impact across multi-tenant accounting and integrations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python (Django preferred) and PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query tuning and migrations on large tables.
• Solid React/Next.js and Tailwind experience; you are comfortable across the stack, with real depth on one side.
• Experience owning production systems: debugging incidents, fixing root causes, and standing behind what you ship.
• Good judgment on tradeoffs, and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into shippable pieces with little structure.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the drive to take projects to the finish line.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end: scope the problem, write a short design, build it, ship it and monitor it.
• Build backend services in Python/Django (DRF, Celery, PostgreSQL) for multi-tenant accounting workflows.
• Build fast, polished interfaces in Next.js, React and Tailwind for dense, data-heavy workflows such as tables, ledgers, reconciliation and reporting.
• Integrate with banks, payment processors, ERPs and CRMs, and keep those integrations reliable.
• Protect data correctness: ledger integrity, closed periods, idempotent jobs, safe migrations, and performance as customers scale.
• Write well-tested code and review teammates' work.
• Mentor junior engineers: pair with them, give thoughtful code review feedback, and help them grow into owning larger pieces of the product.
• Use AI coding tools in your daily work and build features on top of Ember.

Skills

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

React

Next.js

Tailwind

Code quality

Mentoring

Tools

Celery

AWS

LLMs

Job description

About Us

Campfire is an AI-native ERP system. Finance teams at fast-growing companies and the fractional CFO firms that serve them use us to close their books in hours (not weeks), recognize revenue, run AP and AR, and consolidate entities. Ember, our AI, works on the ledger alongside them. We came out of Y Combinator (S'23) and raised a $65M Series B led by Accel and Ribbit Capital.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer at Campfire, you will own real product surface area from design through production. You will build across our Python/Django backend and our Next.js/React frontend, in a product where correctness is a non-negotiable: the general ledger, revenue recognition, invoicing, bills, bank and payment integrations, and the financial close. You will work close to customers' needs and see your work in production in days (not quarters).

What You'll Do

• Own features end to end: scope the problem, write a short design, build it, ship it and monitor it.
• Build backend services in Python/Django (DRF, Celery, PostgreSQL) for multi-tenant accounting workflows.
• Build fast, polished interfaces in Next.js, React and Tailwind for dense, data-heavy workflows such as tables, ledgers, reconciliation and reporting.
• Integrate with banks, payment processors, ERPs and CRMs, and keep those integrations reliable.
• Protect data correctness: ledger integrity, closed periods, idempotent jobs, safe migrations, and performance as customers scale.
• Write well-tested code and review teammates' work.
• Mentor junior engineers: pair with them, give thoughtful code review feedback, and help them grow into owning larger pieces of the product.
• Use AI coding tools in your daily work and build features on top of Ember.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python (Django preferred) and PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query tuning and migrations on large tables.
• Solid React/Next.js and Tailwind experience; you are comfortable across the stack, with real depth on one side.
• Experience owning production systems: debugging incidents, fixing root causes, and standing behind what you ship.
• Good judgment on tradeoffs, and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into shippable pieces with little structure.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the drive to take projects to the finish line.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, accounting, payments or ERP software, or an understanding of double-entry bookkeeping.
• Experience with Celery or other async task systems, AWS, and multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience building with LLMs or agents.
• Experience at an early-stage startup.

Benefits

• We pay 100% of your health, dental, and vision premiums and 80% for your dependents.
• We cater lunch every day, reimburse your commute costs (up to $200/mo), and offer a 401(k).
• You also get unlimited PTO and two weeks a year to work remotely from wherever you like.