Software Engineering Manager

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

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.

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