Staff Software Engineer, Platform

🕒 April 8

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Finch

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11 - 50 employees

🔌 API

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

API • HR Tech • B2B

Finch is a company that offers a unified API designed to connect various employment systems, such as HRIS and payroll providers. The platform centralizes employee and payroll data to simplify processes, providing seamless integration capabilities for developers and companies in industries like HR Tech, Employee Benefits, B2B Fintech, and more. Finch powers financial insights, manages payroll deductions, and automates compliance tasks, ensuring streamlined operations and data privacy. The company's focus on security and ease of use makes it a key partner for organizations looking to enhance their employment infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity. • Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions that will span across multiple teams ranging from problem definition/scoping to execution and see it through to successful and smooth delivery of impactful solutions • Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture • Be hands on in various parts of the system like AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling and application layer. • Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership and help them with building a prioritized roadmap. • Mentor other engineers who need technical guidance.

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles. • Experience managing large backlogs and making prioritization trade-offs. • Proven ability to stabilize unreliable systems (CI, infrastructure, observability). • Mentorship experience—you'll guide engineers who need technical leadership. • Strong communication skills to advocate for platform needs and explain trade-offs. • Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy—you'll define what "good" looks like. • Ability to balance tech debt paydown with new feature delivery.

🏖️ 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