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🕒 April 14

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Found

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51 - 200 employees

💰 $60M Series B on 2022-02

Found is on a mission to make self-employment easier. With business banking and smart, simple financial tools, we help people seamlessly run their own businesses. With over half the U.S. workforce predicted to be self-employed by 2027, we’re proud to be meeting a real and growing need.

📋 Description

• Architect the future version(s) of our key systems like databases, distributed jobs and many others, while taking into account our scaling needs. • Design and implement developer tooling that makes development and deployments safer, reproducible, and easy to rollout. • Drive excellence in observability and monitoring while guiding incident response to ensure issues are resolved quickly and we build a great on-call experience. • Collaborate with engineering teams to maintain a high level of technical quality across our systems while addressing debt, upgrades and platform improvements. • Mentor engineering on how to design reliable, fault-tolerant systems and easy-to-use runbooks for when things go wrong.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with backend technologies in a public cloud environment. • Proven track record of scaling and troubleshooting production systems or services while leading cross-functional projects with business impact. • Deep understanding of end-to-end request flow and how system components interact across the stack—from frontend through CDN/WAF, load balancing, and backend services—with the ability to reason about performance, reliability, and failure modes at any layer. • Strong fundamental knowledge of SLAs and SLOs, as well as ideas around how to implement them at a fast-paced company. • Experience managing tech debt and driving engineering quality improvements across multiple teams. • Experience with opentelemetry, statsd, or Prometheus. • Working knowledge of compliance frameworks like PCI and SOC2. • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, cloudformation, etc). • Familiarity with Sidekiq, Redis, or other async job processing systems. • Experience with mobile app infrastructure (Capacitor, React Native). • Experience building internal tooling or bots to improve engineering workflows. • Interest in financial services, accounting, and/or self-employment.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation. • Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave. • Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits and are always 100% covered for employees, 90% covered for dependents. • Work anywhere: We have Found offices in SF and NYC. For team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working. • Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees. • Generous vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need.