Senior or Staff Software Engineer

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity privacy and financial audit. Put simply we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

Were based in San Francisco CA but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. Were backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives Bessemer Venture Partners 8VC Floodgate Y Combinator DNX Ventures Global Founders Capital Justin Kan Elad Gil and more.

We value diversity in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguides team is inclusive driven humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each others growth.

As an early stage start-up employee youll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product you will find a home at Fieldguide.

Were hiring Senior or Staff Software Engineers to join our growing team. You will contribute as an engineer take on leadership within a team and help drive technical strategy across teams and customers. Leveling 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. Were 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.

• Design build and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact

• Work directly with customers to identify ideate and solve their most challenging problems

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product design & GTM 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

• Travel required approximately 12 times per quarter for customer offsites (e.g. KPMG); the team rotates travel responsibilities across members

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code

• Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript React Python and GraphQL

• Writing maintainable well-tested and observable code

• Sound judgment around tradeoffs reliability and performance

• Willingness to build a deep relationship with customers and develop creative solutions on our platform

• 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

• 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

• Ability to be a voice for the customer to key stakeholders around the organization

• Embodies Fieldguides 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.

• 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

• Manage relationships with some of our most complex customers with unique use-cases

• 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

• Experience working with Applied AI especially LLMs

• Experience or familiarity with audit assurance or risk management domains

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

• History of demonstrated impact working directly with customers

• 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

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

Required Experience:

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