Apply on company website San Francisco, New York City Hybrid Full-time USD 200,000 – 220,000 / year

Finch is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Experience using a distributed messaging system.
  • Strong knowledge of testing best practices.

Nice to Have

  • AWS is a bonus.
  • TDD is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive equity with a 10-year exercise window
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for employees, 85% for dependents)
  • Unlimited PTO (with a 3-week minimum)
  • 401(k) plan
  • Regular team offsites and meetups
  • Hybrid work: 2+ days/week in our SF Office

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — San Francisco, NYC

Job Details
Location San Francisco, New York City
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 200,000 – 220,000 / year
Department Engineering
Category Backend
Posted 21 hours ago
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Finch provides HR and payroll connectivity through a unified API, enabling companies to integrate with a wide range of HRIS, payroll, and benefits providers. The platform allows businesses to access employee and company data across multiple systems, streamlining operations and reducing manual work.

With integrations into over 250 providers—including Gusto, Rippling, Paychex, and Workday—Finch helps startups, Fortune 500s, and organizations in between automate data synchronization. Their API supports use cases in financial wellness, retirement, compliance, HR technology, and insurance.

Finch emphasizes security and compliance, offering enterprise-grade infrastructure to ensure data is handled safely. The company aims to connect the fragmented employment ecosystem by making it easier for software platforms to access and use workforce data.

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