Found
Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack)
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$246,000 to $284,000
Location
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in United States, Canada.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, New York or Remote (USA), Vancouver, Toronto or Remote (Canada), Remote"
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- Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
About Found
Small business owners are the backbone of the American economy. But running a small business comes with a challenges: taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, and banking are just a few. That's where we come in.
Found is building tools that give small business owners the security and peace of mind that has historically only been available at large corporations. We automate taxes and expense tracking because small business owners should spend more time doing what they love, and less time buried in their finances.
We're looking for kind, resourceful, and passionate people to join us in building the financial foundation small businesses deserve.
About This Role
We're hiring a Staff or Principal Software Engineer at Found. This is a high-impact, full-stack role where you’ll drive technical decisions across the company, raise the bar for how we build, and help senior engineers grow.
You'll work across product teams, partner closely with engineering managers and their tech leads, influence how we build across the organization and have ownership over outcomes. You’ll be technically hands-on, and your biggest impact will come from technical judgement and the leadership you bring to decisions that impact the engineering team
What You'll Do
Set technical direction for the company
Drive key technical decisions that shape how multiple teams build
Identify and address reliability, performance, or scalability issues before they become incidents, at a systems level rather than just within a single team
Build and iterate on customer-facing features in our core product using Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript, staying close enough to the code to make well-grounded calls
Work across the stack: backend APIs, data modeling in MySQL and Spanner, and polished frontend experiences
Raise the bar across teams
Partner with engineering leads to align technical direction across the company, not just within a single team
Establish patterns, conventions, and standards that make the codebase easier to work in over time, and drive adoption of them across teams
Contribute to reducing technical debt in a way that's practical and unblocks business goals
Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-team technical problems and help teams move forward with confidence
Develop the engineers around you
Act as a technical mentor and thought partner for senior engineers across teams
Collaborate closely with engineering managers on technical planning, scoping, and team health
Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and design conversations
To thrive in this role, you have:
12+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals and deep technical range
Requirements
- ·12+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals and deep technical range
- ·Prior experience operating at a staff, principal, or architect level
- ·Production experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework, and comfort in React/TypeScript on the frontend
- ·Experience working with relational databases at scale (MySQL, Spanner, or similar)
- ·A track record of leading technical decisions across multiple teams by building relationships, gaining alignment, and influencing without direct authority
Benefits
- ·401K, FSA, and Commuter Benefits: We offer all employees access to tax-efficient benefit options alongside competitive base compensation.
- ·Paid parental leave: Found supports employees through all stages of life, which is why new parents employed by Found qualify for 16 weeks of flexible parental leave.
- ·Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits and are always 100% covered for employees, 90% covered for dependents.
- ·Work anywhere: We have Found offices in SF and NYC. For team members who work outside those cities, Found also supports fully remote working.
- ·Meaningful equity: Everyone on our team should feel and act like an owner, which is why Found offers industry-competitive equity to all of our employees.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Found, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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