Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• Strong communication skills: you can explain technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike
• High standards for code quality and a habit of leaving things better than you found them
• Experience in FinTech, financial services, or products with complex compliance requirements

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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 are always 100% covered for employees, 75% covered for dependents
• Work anywhere: We have Found offices in both SF and Seattle and 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
• Flexible vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need, whenever you need to with our flexible time-off policy