Staff Data Engineer

Ideal start date: May 2026

Role status: Exempt

Compensation: Our target hiring range is $180,000-$200,000 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 Staff Data Engineer to join our Data team to lead the design and implementation of a new data architecture powering critical customer-facing AI features. This person will play a key role in the future of the data and AI strategy of the company, and will design and implement data architecture best practices across the organization. They will also instill a culture of fast experimentation and iteration through fast feedback loops with customers, while keeping long-term vision and architecture in mind. They will provide mentorship and strong collaboration on data architectures and best practices across the entire technology organization.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives on solving hard technical problems that unlock a whole new class of valuable features for customers, while being in close collaboration with people across the technology organization.

As a Staff Data Engineer on our Data team, you will:

• Define the architecture for an AI-ready data platform, including data modeling, orchestration, transformation, serving, metadata, and governance.
• Partner with Product to design and implement AI-powered features that delight customers and bring Campminder to the forefront of technical innovation in the space
• Partner with Engineering management and architects to define and roll out AI-first data engineering best practices on the Data team and on adjacent teams
• Mentor engineers and raise the company’s bar for data platform design, not just implementation

We think a successful candidate will bring:

• Experience architecting and implementing data systems for use with AI at scale
• Experience balancing short-term experimentation with long-term platform maintainability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and set technical direction beyond a single team.
• Passion for mentoring others and rolling out data engineering best practices
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into durable data and AI platform capabilities.
• Experience with AI tooling to significantly accelerate engineering work
• Deep experience with cloud data platforms, including relational and analytical storage, and sound judgment about when to use warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, or serving-layer patterns.

Our Interview Process:

1. 45 min - interview with People & Culture
2. 60 min - interview with Hiring Manager
3. Phase 3
   1. 60 min - coding interview with Engineering team members
   2. 60 min - architecture interview with Engineering team members
   3. 30 min - interview with CTO

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