Staff Backend Software Engineer, Finch

$200-230k

+ Equity

AWS
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Finch

Universal payroll and HR API

Job no longer available

Finch

Universal payroll and HR API

21-100 employees

B2BHRPaymentsAPI

Job no longer available

$200-230k

+ Equity

AWS
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2BHRPaymentsAPI

Company mission

Finch's mission is 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 deal with a major headache, using disparate systems for employee information and payroll that don't often line up neatly with one another and require a large amount of manual data entry take make most of their processes work. Finch exists to solve this, providing APIs that allow companes to build a unified process and single dashboard for all a company's HR functions, allowing HR teams to manage employee benefit contributions, onboard new employees and much more without having to manually pull data from spreadsheets, pdfs and internal servers.

Finch isn't the only company to have noticed this problem, and faces major competition in the HR API space such as Merge and Flexspring, as well as products from larger rivals such as Plaid. However, Finch stands aside due to the security features of its product which allows for the data it handles to be encrypted in transit as well as at rest. It also has advanced access management functions to prevent unauthorized people from accessing data moving through the platform.

Finch has recently raised significant funding in a Series B round which will be used to futher develop the product and to hire addition talent, especially in engineering, product and customer success teams. As the company is already revenue positive and the demand for its product is only growing, Finch is well poised for future success.

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Insights

Top investors

Some 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

Leadership

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.

Studied at NYU Stern School of Business and Y Combinator. Worked as an Equity Research Associate. Are an Investor at Kleiner Perkins and Bond.

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