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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Finch· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$220k - $240kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior platform/infra engineer to own Finch’s Platform team responsibilities including infrastructure, developer tooling, architecture, and security, with autonomy, mentoring responsibilities, and cross-team impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions spanning multiple teams from definition to delivery
  • Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture
  • Hands-on work across AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling and application layer
  • Communicate platform priorities and trade-offs to engineering leadership and help build a prioritized roadmap
  • Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:NodeJSPostgreSQLRedisCI/CDAWSKubernetesObservability
Nice to have:Terraform

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 SF Office
Last updated May 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Finch

Finch is the universal API for payroll and HR

Finch is the API to access payroll and HR systems. We allow admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications. Finch integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow. Our API powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP&A, and HR applications.

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