AI Engineer - Agents

Campfire is on a mission to redefine the accounting software landscape by taking on giants like Netsuite to build modern accounting software for startups and mid-size tech companies. We graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2023 cohort, and we are backed by prominent investors like Foundation Capital and a rapidly growing customer base.

Join Campfire as a Staff AI Engineer to build production AI agents that help customers get real accounting work done. You’ll combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience developing and operating agentic applications, from automating financial workflows to helping customers understand and act on their financial data.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll shape our agent architecture, ship customer-facing features, and establish the engineering practices that make them reliable. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and design to turn ambiguous problems into software our customers can trust

Has Expertise

Strong software engineering background, with substantial experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems. You write maintainable Python and bring sound judgment to APIs, data models, distributed systems, and testing.

Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered agents used by real customers, including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and integration with application data and workflows.

Experience owning agent quality in production through evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and systematic debugging of failures.

Practical judgment around agent permissions, data access, human approvals, and recovery from partial failures, especially when agents take actions on behalf of users.

Ability to balance accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity, and to choose when a problem calls for an agent, a deterministic workflow, or a combination of both.