About This RoleWe're hiring a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to work across our product teams. This is a high-impact, full-stack role where you'll be shipping customer-facing features, raising the technical bar, and helping engineers around you grow.
You'll embed with product teams where the work is most important, partner closely with senior engineers and engineering managers, influence how we build across the organization and have ownership over outcomes.
What You'll DoShip product that drives business impact- Build and iterate on customer-facing features in our core product - banking, tax automation, and expense tracking - using Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, and TypeScript
- Work across the stack: backend APIs, data modeling in MySQL and Spanner, and polished frontend experiences
- Partner with product and design to go from idea to shipped feature quickly, with a high bar for quality
- Own your work end-to-end - you'll be involved in scoping, building, reviewing, and monitoring
Improve how the team builds- Raise the technical bar through code review, architecture input, and honest, constructive feedback
- Help establish patterns and conventions that make the codebase easier to work in over time
- Identify and address reliability, performance, or scalability issues before they become incidents
- Contribute to reducing tech debt in a way that's practical, not theoretical
Develop 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
- Model what great engineering looks like: clear thinking, clean code, and good judgment under ambiguity
To thrive in this role, you have:- 12+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals
- 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 working across multiple teams or functions, building relationships and get alignment
- 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
You may also have:- Experience in FinTech, financial services, or products with complex compliance requirements
- Background as a tech lead, architect, or informal team leader
- Experience driving engineering-wide initiatives such as standards, migrations, platform improvements
Compensation at FoundThe anticipated salary range for this role is
$210,000 - $278,000 (USD or CAD). The salary range listed represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all locations in the corresponding country. Within the range, individual pay is determined by several factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Our competitive base salary is just a piece of Found's total compensation package. Found offers a generous benefits package to all employees see our list below or check out found.com/careers to learn more!
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Perks & Benefits of Found (USA)- 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.
- Generous vacation policy: Vacations, appointments, mental health days- take the time you need.
To learn more about our benefits or the team please go to found.com/careers.
