Senior or Staff Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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.)

What the job involves

• We’re hiring Senior or Staff Software Engineers to join our growing team
• You will contribute as an engineer, take on leadership within a team, and help drive technical strategy across teams and customers
• Leveling will be determined during the interview process based on scope and demonstrated experience
• 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
• 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
• Travel required approximately 1–2 times per quarter for customer offsites (e.g., KPMG); the team rotates travel responsibilities across members

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• PTO