Engineering Manager, Finch
$21-230k
Universal payroll and HR API
Open for applications
Universal payroll and HR API
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$21-230k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Finch's mission is to democratize access to the infrastructure that underpins the employment sector, and unlock much-needed innovations for both employers and employees.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of relevant development experience in a start-up environment; 2+ years of which include people-management experience
- Ability to clearly defining deliverables and timetables, with demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities in complex environments and manage teams to successful project completion
- Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion
- Exposure to high-growth environments
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management
- Experience working with cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products
- Experience working in a remote-first environment
- Deep experience working with APIs
- Strong system-design instincts and experience working with distributed systems
- Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus
- Familiar with various API authentication and authorization methods; particularly OAuth
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices
What the job involves
- Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, curiosity
- Manage a first-class engineering team that will scale as the company and business grows, identifying and filling any team gaps
- Develop a team-oriented, supportive culture with a strong focus on creating a working environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and delivering outcomes
- Be responsible for team output across multiple axis: execution, speed, technical excellence, reliability, just to list a few examples
- Collaborate with Product in setting roadmap and priorities to ensure we’re delivering a valuable and delightful customer experience
- Constantly improve team productivity, refine agile processes, and create methods to increase efficiency
- Perform personnel management tasks for a team of developers, including performance reviews, compliance with company policies, mentoring, and planning career growth
- Set best practices, standards, culture, and policies
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
HR teams deal with a major headache, using disparate systems for employee information and payroll that don't often line up neatly with one another and require a large amount of manual data entry take make most of their processes work. Finch exists to solve this, providing APIs that allow companes to build a unified process and single dashboard for all a company's HR functions, allowing HR teams to manage employee benefit contributions, onboard new employees and much more without having to manually pull data from spreadsheets, pdfs and internal servers.
Finch isn't the only company to have noticed this problem, and faces major competition in the HR API space such as Merge and Flexspring, as well as products from larger rivals such as Plaid. However, Finch stands aside due to the security features of its product which allows for the data it handles to be encrypted in transit as well as at rest. It also has advanced access management functions to prevent unauthorized people from accessing data moving through the platform.
Finch has recently raised significant funding in a Series B round which will be used to futher develop the product and to hire addition talent, especially in engineering, product and customer success teams. As the company is already revenue positive and the demand for its product is only growing, Finch is well poised for future success.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
90% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2023
$3.5m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.7m
Company benefits
- $1K to build your home office
- 401(k) retirement program
- Equity to full-time teammates
- Stipend for co-working spaces
- $100/month wellness stipend
- Professional development budget
- $600/month stipend for groceries
- Company-wide off-sites twice a year
Company values
- Execution
- Curiosity
- Humility
- Empathy
Company HQ
Panhandle, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Jeremy Zhang
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering and Economics at Duke University. Was a Y Combinator member in 2020. Worked in R&D at Amazon Robotics, and as an Early Engineer at Smartcar.
Ansel Parikh
(COO)Studied at NYU Stern School of Business and Y Combinator. Worked as an Equity Research Associate. Are an Investor at Kleiner Perkins and Bond.
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