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Software Engineer

Fieldguide

On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States {{REMOTE}}mid$150k–$260kPosted 8h ago

Job description

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Benefits

  • Health

  • Dental

  • PTO- Embodies Fieldguide’s values: Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-win, Inclusive

  • Ownership mindset - following work through from ideation to production and iteration

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code

  • Sound judgment around tradeoffs, reliability, and performance

  • Clear and proactive communication around progress, risks, and decisions

  • Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow

  • Empathy for teammates and customers; contributes positively to team culture

  • Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver work that moves business outcomes

  • Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains

  • Writing maintainable, well-tested, and observable code

  • Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes

  • Works effectively across disciplines and functions to achieve shared goals

  • Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and GraphQL

  • Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement

  • Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains

  • Working with infrastructure or data layers such as AWS, Postgres, and Hasura

  • Architecting systems for document-heavy workflows, including ingestion, processing, and retrieval

  • Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up

  • Integrating or building ML-powered systems for document understanding or search

  • Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)

  • Implementing DevOps and CI/CD best practices