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# Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Finch

- **Company:** Finch
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $220k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/finch/62ac428a-80ef-4469-9e06-0b87ed4f206f

## Job description

## About Finch

We are on a mission to revolutionize employment by building the infrastructure that powers every facet of work. To do this, we're looking for individuals who think about problems holistically and in-depth, who are relentlessly curious, self-starters, and determined to drive ideas from inception through to completion.

Finch is a Series B company backed by a fantastic set of firms, angels, and our developers including General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Homebrew, BoxGroup, YCombinator, Charley (1st business hire at Plaid), Sima (ex-Head of Biz Dev at Plaid), Henrique + Pedro (co-CEOs at Brex), Jeff + Wayne (co-CEOs at Digits), Immad (CEO at Mercury), Sam (CEO at Vouch Insurance), Karim (CTO at Ramp), and more.

## About Our Team

We're a team of problem solvers who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We value velocity, curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives. Everyone on the team is excited about the scope of the problems we address and the potential impact our work can have on the global workforce. We realize that the value we provide comes with great responsibilities, and therefore make security and privacy our highest priorities.

We come from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and potential will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns.

## About You

You love breaking down complex problems to deliver elegant experiences to customers. You possess a balance of technology and people skills with a high degree of empathy. You thrive on cutting through areas of high ambiguity, narrowing down high-level problems into engineering solutions.

You’re able to coordinate across product, engineering, and support teams to ensure that you’re delivering the right solution for the right problem and that all parties are aligned. You value your customers and your peers and want to succeed as a team.

You’re comfortable wearing many hats and aren’t afraid to execute. You’re excited by working on an API product that powers many of the world’s most impactful applications.

## What You'll Do

- 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.

## What You'll Bring

- 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.

Success Looks Like

- Deep experience working with APIs and back end technologies.
- Strong system-design skills and deep expertise working with distributed systems.
- Knowledge of data tools and ETL/ELT processes
- Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth.
- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus.
- Strong knowledge of testing frameworks and best practices. TDD is strongly encouraged.

## What We Offer

- 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: 3+ days/week in our SF or NYC

## About Finch

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Finch is a unified employment API that lets HR tech, fintech, and benefits platforms securely read and write organization, payroll, and benefits data across 250+ HRIS and payroll systems through a single integration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup; funding stage not disclosed in provided sources)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jeremy Zhang and Ansel Parikh

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: B2B API infrastructure for HR, payroll, and benefits data
- **Target customers**: HR technology platforms, fintech companies, benefits providers, and employers ranging from startups to Fortune 500s
- **Mission**: "Revolutionize employment by building the infrastructure that powers every facet of work."

## Products & Services
- **[Finch API](https://www.tryfinch.com/)**: A unified employment API that standardizes data from 250+ HRIS and payroll providers into a single format, enabling secure read/write access to organization, payroll, and benefits data. Features include real-time visibility into employee records, payroll sync, benefits configuration (401(k), S125, etc.), and extraction of data from tax documents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 100K+ employers connected, 16M+ employee records synced, 99.9% platform uptime
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Named to Inc.'s 2026 Best Workplaces list; actively hiring across the organization; expanding integrations and customer base across startups and Fortune 500s

## Competitive Advantages
- Single unified API covering 250+ employment systems, reducing integration complexity
- Enterprise-grade security and compliance, including SOC 2 Type II certification
- High reliability with >99.9% uptime
- Real-time data synchronization, ensuring accurate and up-to-date HR and payroll information
- Standardized data format that simplifies onboarding and ongoing operations for customers

## Strategic Focus
- Building the foundational infrastructure for employment data across the industry
- Scaling the platform to support more providers and use cases
- Growing the team intentionally while preserving a strong, values-driven culture
- Investing in employee experience and professional development

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work**: Offices in San Francisco and New York City, designed for flexible work and in-person collaboration
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, including fully employer-paid health plan options; 401(k); equity for eligible full-time teammates; pre-tax commuter benefits; daily free lunch; annual company and team off-sites
- **Flexible time off**: Encouraged to take at least 3 weeks per year
- **Culture**: Values include execution, curiosity, humility, and empathy; recognized by Inc. as a 2026 Best Workplace
- **Team environment**: Emphasis on trust, ownership, and solving complex, mission-critical problems in a fast-moving, collaborative setting

## Sources
1. [tryfinch.com](https://www.tryfinch.com/)
2. [tryfinch.com/company/about](https://www.tryfinch.com/company/about)
3. [tryfinch.com/careers](https://www.tryfinch.com/careers)
4. [tryfinch.com/blog/finch-named-to-inc-2026-best-workplaces-list](https://www.tryfinch.com/blog/finch-named-to-inc-2026-best-workplaces-list)

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