Staff Backend Software Engineer, Finch
$200-230k
+ Equity
API for payroll & HR
Job no longer available
API for payroll & HR
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-230k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to the infrastructure that underpins the employment sector, and unlock much-needed innovations for both employers and employees.
Role
Who you are
- You love breaking down complex problems to deliver elegant experiences to customers
- You possess a balance of technology and people skills with a high degree of empathy
- You thrive on cutting through areas of high ambiguity, narrowing down high-level problems into engineering solutions
- You’re able to coordinate across product, engineering, and support teams to ensure that you’re delivering the right solution for the right problem and that all parties are aligned
- You value your customers and your peers and want to succeed as a team. You’re comfortable wearing many hats and aren’t afraid to execute
- You’re excited by working on an API product that powers many of the world’s most impactful applications but that end users may never know exists
- 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a start-up environment
- Track record of executing and delivering on large projects with high ambiguity
- Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion
- Exposure to high-growth start-ups
- Knowledge of agile best practices and how to leverage them to release faster
- Technical understanding of the software development process
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management
- Experience working cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products
- Experience working in a remote-friendly environment
- Deep experience working with APIs and back end technologies
- Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems
- Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth
- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus
- Experience using a distributed messaging system
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus
What the job involves
- Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity
- Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable Finch’s data presentation layer
- Lead the charge on product expansion initiatives, including horizontal expansion of existing integrations to increase data coverage and depth as well as greenfield development in entirely new product verticals
- Develop, test, and maintain integrations to meet security, scalability, and performance requirements to ensure that our services run reliably and efficiently at scale
- Lead large product initiatives that may span across multiple teams, including activities ranging from problem definition to engineering scoping to execution to ensure the successful and smooth delivery of valuable and impactful solutions for our customers
- Deploy code daily
- Understand roadmap priorities and write code focused on scalability, testability, and maintainability
- Quickly debug issues throughout our stack using modern observability tooling and your solid foundation of engineering knowledge
Our take
HR teams often deal with disparate systems for employee information and payroll that don't line up neatly with one another. This requires a large amount of manual data entry, slowing vital processes down. Finch exists to solve this, providing APIs that allow companies to build a unified process and single dashboard for all a company's HR functions.
Through Finch, HR teams can manage employee benefit contributions, onboard new employees and much more without having to manually pull data from spreadsheets, pdfs and internal servers. Though it isn't the only company tackling this issue, Finch stands out for security features which allow for the data it handles to be encrypted in transit as well as at rest.
The company has raised significant funding which support further product development and the expansion of its team, especially across engineering, product and customer success. As the company is already revenue positive, and the demand for its product is only growing, Finch is well poised for future success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
90% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2023
$3.5m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.7m
Company benefits
- $1K to build your home office
- 401(k) retirement program
- Equity to full-time teammates
- Stipend for co-working spaces
- $100/month wellness stipend
- Professional development budget
- $600/month stipend for groceries
- Company-wide off-sites twice a year
Company values
- Execution
- Curiosity
- Humility
- Empathy
Company HQ
Panhandle, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jeremy Zhang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at Duke University. Was a Y Combinator member in 2020. Worked in R&D at Amazon Robotics, and as an Early Engineer at Smartcar.
Ansel Parikh
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied at NYU Stern School of Business and Y Combinator. Worked as an Equity Research Associate. They are an Investor at Kleiner Perkins and Bond.
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