Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Found
$246-284k
+ Equity Salary is the same across both currency
Business banking for the self-employed
Open for applications
Business banking for the self-employed
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$246-284k
+ Equity Salary is the same across both currency
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify finances for the self-employed.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals and deep technical range
- Prior experience operating at a staff, principal, or architect level
- Production experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework, and comfort in React/TypeScript on the frontend
- Experience working with relational databases at scale (MySQL, Spanner, or similar)
- A track record of leading technical decisions across multiple teams by building relationships, gaining alignment, and influencing without direct authority
- Strong communication skills: you can explain technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike
- High standards for code quality and a habit of leaving things better than you found them
Desirable
- Experience in FinTech, financial services, or products with complex compliance requirements
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Staff or Principal Software Engineer at Found. This is a high-impact, full-stack role where you’ll drive technical decisions across the company, raise the bar for how we build, and help senior engineers grow
- You'll work across product teams, partner closely with engineering managers and their tech leads, influence how we build across the organization and have ownership over outcomes
- You’ll be technically hands-on, and your biggest impact will come from technical judgement and the leadership you bring to decisions that impact the engineering team
- Drive key technical decisions that shape how multiple teams build
- Identify and address reliability, performance, or scalability issues before they become incidents, at a systems level rather than just within a single team
- Build and iterate on customer-facing features in our core product using Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript, staying close enough to the code to make well-grounded calls
- Work across the stack: backend APIs, data modeling in MySQL and Spanner, and polished frontend experiences
- Partner with engineering leads to align technical direction across the company, not just within a single team
- Establish patterns, conventions, and standards that make the codebase easier to work in over time, and drive adoption of them across teams
- Contribute to reducing technical debt in a way that's practical and unblocks business goals
- Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-team technical problems and help teams move forward with confidence
- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner for senior engineers across teams
- Collaborate closely with engineering managers on technical planning, scoping, and team health
- Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and design conversations
Our take
Traditionally, freelancers have been burdened with the need to juggle multiple tools and solutions to handle their bookkeeping, invoices, and tax responsibilities. In response to this challenge, Found was established with a mission to simplify financial management for the self-employed, providing them with precious time, cost savings, and peace of mind.
Established by two former Square executives with experience in payroll and SaaS solutions, Found functions as a financial hub for freelancers. It enables users to seamlessly manage their finances by offering services such as income deposits, the issuance of dedicated company debit cards, and tax calculations. Additionally, Found equips freelancers with real-time business insights and streamlines the process of making quarterly tax payments.
As the gig economy continues to thrive, the number of self-employed individuals has seen remarkable growth in recent years. In light of this trend, Found is dedicated to capitalising on the opportunity by expanding its marketing efforts and enhancing its product offerings. Through these strategic moves, Found aims to further support its ever-growing customer base.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$60m
SERIES B
May 2021
$12.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.3m
Company benefits
- 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation
- Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave
- Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits are always 100% covered for employees, 75% covered for dependents
- Work anywhere: We have Found offices in both SF and Seattle and for team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working
- Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees
- Flexible vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need, whenever you need to with our flexible time-off policy
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lauren Myrick
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics at UC Santa Barbara, and joined Deloitte as an Associate. Worked in Finance at EmSense Corporation, and was General Manager of Payroll at Square.
Connor Dunn
(Co-Founder & CIO)Studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and worked as a Software Engineer at Trigger Corp. Was an Engineering Lead at Square.
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