Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Finch, a Series B company backed by renowned investors, as a Backend Developer. Work on an API product that powers many impactful applications while championing our values: empathy, execution, humility, and curiosity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain powerful services, lead product expansion initiatives, and deliver high-quality products in a remote-friendly environment.

Requirements

• 10+ 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
• Experience working cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products
• Experience working in a remote-friendly environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable Finch’s data presentation layer
• Lead the charge on product expansion initiatives
• Develop, test, and maintain integrations to meet security, scalability, and performance requirements
• Lead large product initiatives that may span across multiple teams
• Deploy code daily

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Familiarity with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth
• Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus
• Experience using a distributed messaging system
• Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus

Benefits

• Work from home budget
• Flexible monthly stipend
• 100% Health/Dental/Vision coverage and 85% dependent coverage
• Unlimited vacation policy (with 3 weeks minimum)
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Offsite company trips
• Offices in SF & NYC