Finch · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expFinch is a Series B company on a mission to revolutionize employment by building the infrastructure that powers every facet of work. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead critical infrastructure projects, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions within the Platform team.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
7+ 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
Preferred
Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or similar, at scale
Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and networking
Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus
CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
Experience working AWS Services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform strongly preferred)
Kubernetes (deployments, scaling, troubleshooting, security)
Experience using a distributed messaging system
Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
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
Company
Finch
Finch is the #1 API for Employment Systems. Gain access to 200+ HRIS, Payroll, and Benefits systems through Finch's unified API.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$62.12MKey Investors
IntuitGeneral Catalyst,Menlo VenturesMenlo Ventures
2023-06-07Series Unknown· $3.5M
2023-02-22Series B· $40M
2022-06-08Series A· $15M
Leadership Team
Jeremy Zhang
CEO + Co-Founder
Ansel Parikh
Co-Founder
Recent News
Menlo Ventures
2025-12-29
General Catalyst
2025-12-29
generalcatalyst.com
2025-12-29
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