Software Engineer

• 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