AI Engineer - Agents

The role

You will build production AI agents to automate financial workflows and help customers act on financial data. You will shape agent architecture, ship customer-facing features, and establish engineering practices.

What you will do

• Build production AI agents
• Shape agent architecture
• Ship customer-facing features
• Establish engineering practices
• Work with engineering, product, and design to turn ambiguous problems into software
• Prototype, deploy, and monitor models in production

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background
• Substantial experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems
• Write maintainable Python
• Experience with APIs, data models, distributed systems, and testing
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered agents used by real customers
• Experience with tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and integration with application data and workflows
• Experience owning agent quality in production through evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and systematic debugging
• Practical judgment around agent permissions, data access, human approvals, and recovery from partial failures
• Ability to balance accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity
• Track record of staff-level impact leading complex initiatives and making architectural decisions
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
• Comfortable experimenting, iterating, and shipping fast

Nice to have

• Prior fintech or accounting experience

About the company

Campfire is on a mission to redefine the accounting software landscape by building modern accounting software for startups and mid-size tech companies. They graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2023 cohort.