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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Finch· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco; New York City)$220k - $240kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Backend-focused staff engineer role at Finch, an Employment Data Platform, with emphasis on designing and scaling APIs and data integrations, leading large initiatives, and shaping architecture and reliability.

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.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a high growth environment.
  • Customer-obsessed mindset. 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.
  • A collaborative mindset with experience mentoring and leveling up engineers around you.
  • Exposure to high-growth start-ups. You thrive in fast-moving environments where your work directly impacts company success.
  • Technical understanding of the software development process.
  • Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical peers, leaders, and executive management.

Skills

Required:API design and developmentDistributed systemsNodeJSPostgreSQL
Nice to have:Redis

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 or NYC
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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