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title: 'Software Engineer (All Levels) at Fieldguide'
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# Software Engineer (All Levels) at Fieldguide

- **Company:** Fieldguide
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States
- **Compensation:** $150k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fieldguide/47a2afc4-1075-4378-83bb-714543b6c272

## Job description

## ABOUT FIELDGUIDE

Fieldguide is redefining trust in global commerce by modernizing how cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits are done. We build software that empowers the practitioners who enable trust between businesses—automating and streamlining their work to deliver faster, higher-quality results.

We’re a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, and more. Our team values diversity of backgrounds and experiences, and we’re deliberate about building an inclusive, humble, and high-performing culture.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re hiring Software Engineers across multiple levels to join our growing team. Depending on your experience and interests, you may contribute as a mid-level engineer, take on leadership within a team, or drive technical strategy across teams and systems. The final level will be determined during the interview process based on scope and demonstrated experience.

This is an opportunity to have outsized impact at a company with clear product-market fit and massive growth potential. We’re taking on legacy audit and accounting tools that are decades old, widely disliked, and ripe for disruption.

Our engineering hub is located in San Francisco. This role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US; Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Design, build, and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design to turn complex problems into elegant, user-focused solutions
- Balance iteration speed with long-term maintainability and system health
- Continuously improve our tech stack, developer workflows, and reliability practices
- Contribute to a supportive, growth-oriented engineering culture based on trust, learning, and excellence

## CORE COMPETENCIES (ALL LEVELS)

## TECHNICAL CRAFT

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
- Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and GraphQL
- Writing maintainable, well-tested, and observable code
- Sound judgment around tradeoffs, reliability, and performance

## IMPACT & EXECUTION

- Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver work that moves business outcomes
- Clear and proactive communication around progress, risks, and decisions
- Ownership mindset - following work through from ideation to production and iteration

## COLLABORATION & INFLUENCE

- Empathy for teammates and customers; contributes positively to team culture
- Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement
- Works effectively across disciplines and functions to achieve shared goals

## CULTURE & GROWTH

- Embodies Fieldguide’s values: Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-win, Inclusive
- Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes
- Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains
- Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow.

## HIGHER-LEVEL RESPONSIBILITIES

AT THE SENIOR LEVEL, YOU MAY:

- Lead complex projects or systems, setting technical direction and ensuring long-term health
- Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs
- Serve as a domain expert within one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend architecture, backend systems, developer experience)
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team

AT THE STAFF LEVEL, YOU MAY:

- Drive company-level technical initiatives and influence cross-team architecture
- Set and champion engineering standards for scalability, security, and performance
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design
- Represent Fieldguide externally through writing, speaking, and open-source contributions

## NICE-TO-HAVE EXPERIENCE

- Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains
- Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up
- Working with infrastructure or data layers such as AWS, Postgres, and Hasura
- Architecting systems for document-heavy workflows, including ingestion, processing, and retrieval
- Integrating or building ML-powered systems for document understanding or search
- Implementing DevOps and CI/CD best practices
- Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)

## BENEFITS

- Competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including free therapy sessions
- Flexible PTO and work schedules
- Technology & work-from-home reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day

## OUR VALUES

Fearless — Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls

Fast — Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection

Lovable — Deliver happiness & 11-star experiences

Owners — Execute & run the business with ownership

Win-win — Create mutual value & earn trust for life

Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams

## About Fieldguide

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fieldguide is an AI-native platform that automates audit and advisory engagements for professional services firms, replacing manual workflows with agentic AI and collaborative tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jin Chang (CEO/Co-Founder) and Chris Szymansky (CTO/Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory (Regulatory Compliance, Risk Advisory, Financial Audit, SOC Readiness, IT Audit, Cybersecurity & Privacy, ESG)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — Audit and advisory practices (CPA firms, risk advisory firms, internal audit teams) ranging from top 100 firms to regional practices. Clients include KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA, CohnReznick, and many others.
- **Mission/Purpose**: "Increase trust in commerce and capital markets" by amplifying the assurance and advisory engagement experience through automation and AI.

## Products & Services
- **Fieldguide AI Platform**: The core end-to-end engagement management platform where practitioners and AI agents work together. Covers planning, testing, evidence review, reporting, and client collaboration.
- **Field Agents (Agentic AI)**: Purpose-built AI agents that automate end-to-end test procedures — validating evidence, summarizing results, and flagging exceptions. Includes Testing Agents, Substantive Testing Agents, Request Agents, and Agentic Chat.
- **AI Actions**: Handles recurring tasks across entire workpapers (drafting walkthroughs, suggesting test plans).
- **Client Hub**: Automated modern request management with a client-facing portal.
- **Reporting Automation**: One-click collaborative report generation.
- **Document Management**: Enterprise-grade workpaper management.
- **End-to-End Engagement Management**: Centralized platform for planning, execution, and delivery across every practice area and methodology.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (last round: Series C, $75M, announced February 2026)
- **Total Funding**: $125.3M (8 rounds)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $7.5M (156 employees)
- **Notable Investors**: Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead, Series C), Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries. Corporate investment from KPMG (2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 64.5% YoY headcount growth (+78 people); 50% of the top 100 firms trust Fieldguide; 32% reduction in engagement hours for customers; 70% reduction in manual testing time; 95% reduction in manual testing time for certain workflows; error rate of less than 1% versus manual processes; 5-time winner of CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical AI Moat**: Purpose-built for regulated audit and advisory environments, not a generic AI tool. Field Agents are trained on industry standards (SOX, HIPAA, FFIEC, HITRUST, PCI DSS) and firm methodologies.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Both co-founders have deep industry experience — Jin Chang spent 5 years at EY in audit & advisory; Chris Szymansky has a technical background and founded a crypto tax automation company.
- **Network Effects**: As more firms use the platform, the AI agents improve across methodologies and regulatory frameworks, creating a data moat.
- **Top-Tier Customer Base**: Already adopted by 50% of the top 100 firms, including Big Four (KPMG) and national leaders (RSM, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton), providing credibility and a strong reference base.
- **Capital & Strategic Backing**: Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer, 8VC, and a strategic investment from KPMG — signaling both financial strength and industry validation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI First**: Doubling down on autonomous AI agents that execute testing, documentation, and evidence review, allowing practitioners to focus on judgment and client impact.
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond audit into risk advisory, SOC, ESG, cybersecurity, and other assurance practices — becoming the single platform for all trust services.
- **Geographic Growth**: Expanding presence with offices/hubs in San Francisco (HQ), Denver, New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, London, Seattle, and Singapore.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (+105.6% YoY job posting growth) across engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Work that directly increases trust in commerce and capital markets — a meaningful, high-impact problem.
- **Remote-Friendly Culture**: Described as a "remote-friendly, global company" with hubs across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Korea, and Singapore. Not fully remote but flexible.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Cross-functional teams with autonomy and focus on core metrics. Engineers work on cutting-edge agentic AI problems in a high-regulation environment.
- **Learning Opportunity**: Daily exposure to industry experts (former auditors on staff) who share knowledge — no prior audit experience needed.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, stock options, flexible PTO, wellness benefits, technology reimbursement, company offsites.
- **Culture Values**: "Loveable" (create mutual value, earn trust), "Fearless" (inspire, break down walls), "Fast" (launch fast, iterate to perfection), "Inclusive" (scale best ideas with inclusive teams), "Owners" (execute with ownership), "Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences."
- **Talent Density**: Team includes alumni from Meta, Amazon, Brex, Carta, EY, Thomson Reuters, FloQast, LaunchDarkly — high-caliber peers.

## Sources
1. [fieldguide.io](https://www.fieldguide.io/)
2. [fieldguide.io/about](https://www.fieldguide.io/about)
3. [fieldguide.io/careers](https://www.fieldguide.io/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide)

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