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Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Finch· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$200k - $220kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role focused on Finch's Platform team, owning infrastructure and developer experience with autonomy to lead critical projects, set standards, and mentor others.

Responsibilities

  • Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity.
  • Lead critical infrastructure projects and drive architectural decisions across multiple teams from scoping to delivery.
  • Establish platform engineering standards and partner with product teams on reliability, performance, and architecture.
  • Be hands on in 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 who need technical guidance.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:NodeJSPostgreSQLRedisAWSKubernetesCI/CDObservability
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 our 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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