Engineering Manager, Finch
Core Product
$210-240k
+ Equity with a 10-year exercise window
2-5 days a week in office
API for payroll & HR
Be an early applicant
API for payroll & HR
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-240k
+ Equity with a 10-year exercise window
2-5 days a week in office
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
- You are an empathetic, results-driven leader who loves building high-performing teams
- You bring both technical and people skills to the table, with a focus on creating a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive engineering culture
- You thrive on cutting through areas of high ambiguity and narrowing down high-level problems into engineering solutions
- You can coordinate across product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners to ensure that your teams are delivering the right solution for the right problem and that all parties are aligned
- You value your customers and peers and want to succeed as a team
- You understand the importance of creating an environment that encourages open communication and helps people grow
- You’re comfortable wearing many hats and aren’t afraid to execute
- You’re excited by working on an API and data platform that powers many of the world’s most impactful applications
- You have a deep inclination toward automation and using LLMs to build a culture of high leverage across the team, not just using AI tools regularly yourself, but finding ways to systematically improve system and organizational efficiency
- 7+ years of relevant development experience, ideally in a start-up environment; 2+ years of which include people-management experience
- Ability to clearly defining deliverables and timetables, with demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities in complex environments and manage teams to successful project completion
- Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion
- Exposure to high-growth environments
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices, with a focus on both technical excellence and team dynamics
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management
- Experience working with cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products
- Passion for creating a positive, inclusive, and supportive team culture that promotes career growth for all members
- Deep experience working with APIs
- Strong product sense and a knack for building a platform that effectively balances serving different types of customers
- Strong system-design instincts and experience working with distributed systems
- Experience working with technologies like NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis or similar
- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus
- Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices
- You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and potential will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns
What the job involves
- Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity
- Lead a dynamic, first-class engineering team that will scale as the company and business grows, identifying and filling any team gaps
- Develop a team-oriented, supportive culture with a strong focus on creating a working environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and delivering outcomes
- Be responsible for team output across multiple axes: execution, speed, technical excellence, and reliability, just to list a few examples
- Collaborate with Product in setting roadmap and priorities to ensure we’re delivering a valuable and delightful customer experience
- Constantly improve team productivity, refine agile processes, and create methods to increase efficiency
- Support and mentor your team, providing feedback and opportunities for career development and growth
- Set best practices, standards, culture, and policies
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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