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.

What You’ll Do

• 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

Core Competencies (All Levels)

Technical Craft

• 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

Impact & Execution

• 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

Collaboration & Influence

• 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

Culture & Growth

• 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.

Higher-Level Responsibilities

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

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains
• Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up
• 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
• Implementing DevOps and CI/CD best practices
• Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including free therapy sessions
• Flexible PTO and work schedules
• Technology & work-from-home reimbursements
• 401(k) plan
• Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.

Our Values

Fearless — Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls

Fast — Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection

Lovable — Deliver happiness & 11-star experiences

Owners — Execute & run the business with ownership

Win-win — Create mutual value & earn trust for life

Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams

Compensation Range: $160K - $210K