Engineering Manager, Finch
Platform
$210-230k
+ Equity
API for payroll & HR
Open for applications
API for payroll & HR
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$210-230k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratise access to the infrastructure that underpins the employment sector, and unlock much-needed innovations for both employers and employees.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps work; 2+ years of which include people-management experience
- Hands-on platform engineering background— You've built infrastructure, written Terraform, debugged Kubernetes, or improved CI/CD pipelines yourself
- Proven ability to manage engineering teams through complex technical projects with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and cross-team dependencies
- Track record of growing and developing engineers, including performance management, career development, and difficult conversations
- Experience prioritizing large backlogs and making trade-offs between tech debt, new features, stability, and developer experience
- Strong technical communication skills— You can explain infrastructure trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and advocate for platform investments
- Ability to balance hands-on technical involvement with people leadership— You stay close enough to the code to maintain credibility and make informed decisions
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure improvements that enable product engineering velocity
- Bonus: Led a platform or infrastructure team before, experience with high-growth engineering organizations, security/compliance background (PII encryption, SOC2), experience managing distributed or remote teams
- Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and networking
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus
- CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Experience working AWS Services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform strongly preferred)
- Experience using a distributed messaging system
- Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Proven people management: 1-on-1s, performance reviews, career development, conflict resolution
- Roadmap planning and prioritization across competing demands
- Cross-functional stakeholder management and communication
- Hiring and building high-performing teams
- Creating engineering culture and setting technical standards
What the job involves
- Finch's Platform team owns the infrastructure and developer experience that powers our engineering organization. You'll lead a 4-5 person team with a high-impact backlog spanning infrastructure stability, developer tooling, architectural decomposition, and security
- The team handles tech debt paydown (CI reliability, observability consolidation), security work (PII encryption, data contamination prevention), and architectural decisions (monolith decomposition, database scaling). This is high-leverage infrastructure work that enables the entire engineering organization
- Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity
- Manage and grow a 5-person platform engineering team: hiring, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, career development, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
- Own the platform roadmap alongside senior engineers— prioritize across infrastructure stability, developer tooling, security, and architectural improvements (monolith decomposition, database scaling, observability strategy)
- Make technical trade-off decisions: tech debt vs. new capabilities, build vs. buy, optimize vs. rewrite. You stay close enough to the code to review Terraform and make informed architectural decisions
- Partner with product engineering teams and leadership to align platform investments with company priorities and communicate platform constraints and trade-offs
- Set platform engineering standards and best practices across infrastructure-as-code, observability, deployment practices, and incident response
- Drive continuous improvement of team productivity, engineering processes, and delivery efficiency
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
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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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