Senior Software Engineer, Finch
Backend
$180-200k
+ Equity
Universal payroll and HR API
Open for applications
Universal payroll and HR API
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
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
- 7+ 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
- Experience using Git in a professional environment
- 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
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
Articles
Leadership
Jeremy Zhang
(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
(COO)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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