You will own the engineering side of customer support, bridging the gap between bug fixes and feature development. Working across a Rails and React stack, you’ll triage reported issues, ship immediate fixes, and build roadmap features. This role is vital for maintaining high-reliability and responsiveness during the critical summer camp season.
Software Engineer at Campfront
Campfront is looking for a Software Engineer to own the engineering side of support for their camp management platform. Built by the experts behind Camp Leaders with 25+ years of experience, this is a unique opportunity to work across a Rails and React stack in an autonomous, high-impact environment. You'll bridge the gap between triage and feature development, ensuring thousands of camps run smoothly during their peak seasons. If you're a clear communicator who loves solving complex bugs and shipping weekly, join a team that values real ownership and modern tools.
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Location
Remote (United States)
Compensation
$90k
Company
Campfront
Role overview
Campfront is a cloud-based camp management platform for US summer camps. It is designed to help camps run enrollment, payments, forms, staffing, communication, scheduling, reporting, media storage, and parent/staff portals from one place. The product is positioned as fast, AI-native, and built by a team with decades of camp-industry experience.
What you will do
- Triage, reproduce, and resolve camp-reported bugs across the full stack using Ruby on Rails, React, and Postgres.
- Directly communicate with camp directors to set clear expectations and provide status updates on high-priority technical issues during the peak season.
- Proactively monitor error tracking tools to catch and fix issues before they impact camp operations, ensuring the platform remains highly available.
Who this is a fit for
- Has professional experience building and maintaining full-stack web applications using Ruby on Rails and React with Inertia.
- Thrives in a high-accountability role that requires being reachable for urgent issues during the US summer camp season and business hours.
- Possesses the debugging intuition to dive into unfamiliar codebases and trace complex issues to their root cause without hand-holding.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join an experienced founding team with over 25 years of domain expertise and a proven track record in the summer camp industry.
- Enjoy true ownership in a lean, autonomous environment where you ship weekly and see the direct impact of your work on camp operations.
- Balance critical firefighting with roadmap development, ensuring you stay deeply integrated with the core product, standups, and the broader engineering team.
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