Finch - Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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Requirements
• 7+ years of relevant backend development experience in a start-up environment. • Track record of executing and delivering on large projects with high ambiguity. • Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion. • Exposure to high-growth start-ups. • Knowledge of agile best practices and how to leverage them to release faster. • Technical understanding of the software development process. • Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management. • Experience working cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products. • Experience working in a remote-friendly environment. • Deep experience working with APIs and back end technologies. • Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems. • Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis. • Experience using Git in a professional environment. • Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth. • Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus. • Experience using a distributed messaging system. • Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus.
Responsibilities
• 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. • Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity. • Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable Finch’s data presentation layer. • Lead the charge on product expansion initiatives, including horizontal expansion of existing integrations to increase data coverage and depth as well as greenfield development in entirely new product verticals. • Develop, test, and maintain integrations to meet security, scalability, and performance requirements to ensure that our services run reliably and efficiently at scale. • Lead large product 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 write code focused on scalability, testability, and maintainability. • Quickly debug issues throughout our stack using modern observability tooling and your solid foundation of engineering knowledge.
Benefits
• 100% Health/Dental/Vision coverage and 85% dependent coverage • Unlimited vacation policy (with 3 weeks minimum) • Offsite company trips • Offices in SF & NYC • $180,000 - $215,000 a year • Finch’s compensation package includes a competitive base salary benchmarked against real-time market data, as well as equity for all full-time roles. We want all full-time employees to be invested in Finch and to be able to take advantage of that investment, so our equity grants include a 10-year exercise window. We also offer exceptional benefits. Our minimum salary range for this role is: • $180,000 - $215,000 • Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors. • This is a Hybrid role that requires working two days per week in our office in either San Francisco or NYC.
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