Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fieldguide builds software that automates and streamlines assurance and audit work across cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. The Senior or Staff Software Engineer will design and deliver customer-focused features, collaborate across functions, work directly with customers, and help shape technical strategy, architecture, and engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes
- 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
Skills
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
- Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, 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 Fieldguide's 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
- 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.)
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement; this role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US.
- Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.
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