Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Finch

New York, New York, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Fintech, HR TechIndustries

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a high growth environment
  • Customer-obsessed mindset where customer needs always take priority
  • Track record of executing and delivering on large projects with high ambiguity
  • Detail-oriented approach to large scale challenges with the ability to work cross-functionally and cross-team as needed to drive initiatives from inception through to launch
  • Strong, but loosely held, opinions of what it takes to build a healthy and smooth operating engineering organization
  • Collaborative mindset with experience mentoring and leveling up engineers around you
  • Love breaking down complex problems to deliver elegant experiences to customers
  • Balance of technology and people skills with a high degree of empathy
  • Thrive on cutting through areas of high ambiguity, narrowing down high-level problems into engineering solutions
  • Ability to coordinate across product, engineering, and support teams to ensure delivering the right solution for the right problem and that all parties are aligned
  • Value customers and peers and want to succeed as a team
  • Comfortable wearing many hats and executing
  • Excited by working on an API product that powers many of the world’s most impactful applications
  • Think about problems holistically and in-depth, relentlessly curious, self-starter, and determined to drive ideas from inception through to completion

Responsibilities

  • 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 of existing integrations to increase data coverage and depth as well as greenfield development in entirely new product verticals
  • Lead large 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 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

Skills

Backend
API
Security
Privacy
Software Engineering

Finch

API platform for HR and payroll integration

About Finch

Finch provides an API platform that facilitates integration between HR systems, payroll providers, and other employer-related services. This platform allows different software systems to communicate and share data effectively, acting as a bridge for businesses. Finch primarily targets small to medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, and software developers who need to connect their HR and payroll systems with other applications. The company generates revenue by charging fees for API usage, which can vary based on the number of API calls or users. Finch prioritizes security and data protection, ensuring that all data exchanges comply with industry standards, which is essential given the sensitive nature of payroll and HR information. The goal of Finch is to help businesses streamline their HR and payroll operations through efficient integration services.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2020Year Founded
$62.9MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, Fintech, CybersecurityIndustries
51-200Employees

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
Offsite company trips
Hybrid Work Options

Risks

Increased competition in HR tech could threaten Finch's market share.
Rapid tech advancements may strain Finch's resources for continuous innovation.
Data privacy concerns could arise with expanded API coverage.

Differentiation

Finch offers a unified API platform for 200+ HR and payroll systems.
The company emphasizes strong data security and protection standards.
Finch provides seamless integration for SMEs and large corporations.

Upsides

Finch raised $40M in Series B funding to expand API coverage.
Growing demand for API-based HR integrations boosts Finch's market potential.
Partnerships with firms like PensionPro enhance Finch's service offerings.

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