Staff Software Engineer, Backend
AI summary of the role
Staff-level backend engineer at a Series B API company building payroll and HRIS connectivity infrastructure.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and maintain services for high-volume data processing across complex employment system integrations.
- Drive alignment on strategic initiatives and architectural best practices, leading by example.
- Lead product reliability and expansion initiatives, including horizontal integration expansion and greenfield development.
- Lead large cross-team initiatives from problem definition through scoping and execution.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a high-growth environment.
- Deep experience with APIs, distributed systems, and strong system-design skills.
- Experience with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Familiarity with API authentication/authorization methods, particularly OAuth.
Technologies
NodeJS · PostgreSQL · Redis · OAuth · AWS · ETL · ELT · TDD · APIs · distributed systems
About Finch
Unified API that lets HR, fintech, benefits, and compliance apps read and write payroll and HRIS data across hundreds of employment systems.
Series B · 50–100 people
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
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. What You'll Do Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity. Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable processing high volumes of data across a wide array of complex employment system integrations. Influence organizational direction by driving alignment on strategic initiatives and architectural best practices and leading by example. Lead the charge on product reliability and expansion initiatives, including horizontal expansion
More from the job description
About Finch We are on a mission to revolutionize employment by building the infrastructure that powers every facet of work. To do this, we're looking for individuals who think about problems holistically and in-depth, who are relentlessly curious, self-starters, and determined to drive ideas from inception through to completion. Finch is a Series B company backed by a fantastic set of firms, angels, and our developers including General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Homebrew, BoxGroup, YCombinator, Charley (1st business hire at Plaid), Sima (ex-Head of Biz Dev at Plaid), Henrique + Pedro (co-CEOs at Brex), Jeff + Wayne (co-CEOs at Digits), Immad (CEO at Mercury), Sam (CEO at Vouch Insurance), Karim (CTO at Ramp), and more. About Our Team We're a team of problem solvers who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We value velocity, curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives. Everyone on the team is excited about the scope of the problems we address and the potential impact our work can have on the global workforce. We realize that the value we provide comes with great responsibilities, and therefore make security and privacy our highest priorities. We come from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and potential will stand out [... source excerpt omitted ...] oordinate 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. What You'll Do Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity. Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable processing high volumes of data across a wide array of complex employment system integrations. Influence organizational direction [... source excerpt omitted ...] , 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 build systems focused on scalability, testability, and maintainability. Quickly debug issues throughout our stack using modern observability tooling and your solid foundation of engineering knowledge. What You'll Bring 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a high growth environment. Customer-obsessed mindset. Customer needs always take priority. Track record of executing and delivering on large projects with high am
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