Staff Backend Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 29, 2026.
Join Finch, a fast-growing startup, as a Staff Backend Software Engineer. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable Finch's data presentation layer. You will lead product expansion initiatives, develop and maintain integrations, and deploy code daily. You will also coordinate across product, engineering, and support teams to ensure successful delivery of solutions. The position offers a range of benefits, including a home office stipend, 401(k) retirement program, equity, wellness stipend, professional development budget, and more.
Missions
- Concevoir, construire et maintenir des services puissants pour permettre la couche de présentation des données de Finch.
- Diriger les initiatives d'expansion des produits, y compris l'expansion horizontale des intégrations existantes et le développement de nouveaux produits.
- Développer, tester et maintenir des intégrations pour répondre aux exigences de sécurité, d'évolutivité et de performance.
Profil recherché
- 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 but that end users may never know exists
- 10+ years of relevant backend development experience in a start-up environment
- Knowledge of agile best practices and how to leverage them to release faster
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management
- Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion
- Experience working in a remote-friendly environment
- Technical understanding of the software development process
- Track record of executing and delivering on large projects with high ambiguity
- Exposure to high-growth start-ups
- Experience working cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products
- Deep experience working with APIs and back end technologies
- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus
- Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth
- Experience using a distributed messaging system
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus
- Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems