Director of Engineering, Platform

Ideal start timeline: May 2026

Role status: Exempt

Compensation: Our target hiring range is $205,000-$250,000 plus participation in our Annual Bonus Program with eligibility for $12,000 bonus. Actual compensation will be commensurate with experience and skills.

Campminder’s Flexible Working Location: Our employees have the option to work 100% remotely within the United States or their choice of days at home and at our office in Boulder, Colorado. We host a variety of all-company hybrid meetings and social events. We require anybody working remotely to have a very reliable, high-speed internet connection.

We know the best people can choose to work anywhere.

Here’s a few reasons why 85+ of them choose Campminder:

• With 20+ years experience of serving the industry through its digital transformation, we’re stable, profitable, and have developed a loyal customer base (that continues to grow).
• We build software for summer camps, an industry that enables meaningful experiences for kids.
• We work on interesting, ambitious projects that create real value for our clients.
• We know our team members feel their work has an impact on the organization’s purpose.
• At the same time, we are genuinely committed to work/life balance. Our team members feel they have the flexibility to take time off when needed and feel supported in making use of flexible working arrangements.
• We invest in emerging technology and cutting-edge leadership and are proud to take an "AI-Enabled" approach in our solutions.
• We’ve been listed on Outside Magazine’s 50 Best Places to Work for 8 consecutive years for our values-led culture and employee experience.

This role’s mission & overview:
We are looking for a Director of Engineering for our Platform organization at CampCo. This director will own a critical strategic area of our engineering organization, tasked with creating a Data, AI, and DevOps platform that will support multiple different youth experience products, as well as external customers. The Data team is responsible for consolidating and modernizing data and reporting for all CampCo products, and building industry-leading AI-powered data insights and reporting for our customers. The AI team is building our AI platform, to be used both internally by CampCo employees and externally by our customers to innovate on top of the CampCo feature platform. The DevOps and security team is tasked with migrating our development, testing, and deployment infrastructure to the latest best practices designed to support a fully agentic development flow that supports fast, secure innovation.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives on leading teams that are solving hard architectural and platform problems, leading our company into the future of AI, platform, and infrastructure best practices.

As a Director of Engineering for our Platform organization, you will:

• Lead CampCo Platform engineering organization, which includes the the Data, AI Platform, DevOps, IT, and Security teams
• Lead the creation of a data platform, to be used by customers directly, by CampCo products internally, and by future youth experience products
• Lead the creation of an AI platform for both internal and external customers
• Enable and accelerate AI adoption across all of CampCo , both inside and outside the engineering organization
• Transform our DevOps and security practices to support a fully scaled agentic development workflow
• Set high standards for the performance of your teams, in terms of technical, operational, AI utilization, process, project management, and people management best practices
• Reinforce best practices on your teams with active coaching, iterative improvements, and metrics-driven measurements of results
• Partner with your product and design counterparts to define the product roadmap for your organization, balancing external and internal customer needs

We think a successful candidate will bring:

• Experience leading high-performing, highly engaged engineering teams in growth environments, while maintaining strong engineering best practices and high quality
• Proven track record of continuously leading teams to significantly improve engineering org velocity through tooling, process, and culture changes
• Proven track record of using metrics to identify, define, and drive improvements in engineering organizations
• Experience leading engineering platform teams (i.e. DevOps, Data, AI platform, etc.)
• Experience modernizing the DevOps and automation best practices for an engineering organization to create significant increases in velocity and automation
• Experience transitioning teams to agentic coding and harness engineering, resulting in significant velocity gains
• Strong Agile project management skills
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business impact for stakeholders and leaders across the organization
• Excellent coaching and mentorship skills; ability to grow engineers and managers
• Growth-oriented mindset, with a desire to constantly learn and improve themselves, and improve their teams
• An effective bridge between their teams and other teams; balances engineering team needs with the needs of the business

Our Interview Process:

1. 45 min - interview with People & Culture
2. 60 min - interview with Hiring Manager
3. Phase 3
   1. 60 min - peer interview with Engineering manager
   2. 60 min - peer interview with product management leader
4. 30 min - final interview with CEO

A few of the benefits we are proud to offer:

• Robust medical, dental, and vision coverage options with generous employer contributions, plus a $500 employer HSA contribution for HSA-compatible plans
• Ability to choose where you work - remotely, in the office, or a mix!
• A variety of resources to support mental health and emotional well-being
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents, including via adoption, surrogacy, and foster care
• 401(k) with 4% company matching
• Trust-Based (flexible) PTO (and yes, we use it!)
• $900/year wellness allowance
• Company-paid subscriptions, training, and support for using AI professionally and personally. We have a team dedicated to enabling our AI capabilities for our team members and our customers!

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply:

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. We welcome and encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other historically marginalized groups.

Research shows that women and people of color tend not to apply to jobs unless they believe they are 100% qualified and apply to fewer senior-level positions. With that in mind, we encourage you to apply if you're not sure whether you meet our qualifications. We'd love to have the opportunity to consider you!

We encourage applications from parents, parents-to-be, and those responsible for the caretaking of others. We offer paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents (including for adoption, surrogacy, and foster care placement) and paid loss leave to recover from miscarriage or stillbirth. The company's HSA and wellness allowance contributions may be used toward childcare, eldercare, adoption fees, and fertility treatments like IVF, among other expenses.