Staff Software Engineer, Audit (Full Stack)

Fieldguide

$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Seasoned full-stack engineer with a record in driving complex projects from vague problems to production.
  • Experience in setting technical direction at team or organization level.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity with unclear requirements.
  • Strong technical collaborator with influence in product and design decisions.
  • Familiar with AI coding tools and thoughtful about agentic approaches.
  • Quick to build domain knowledge, particularly in financial auditing.
  • Able to mentor and enhance the growth of fellow engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for innovative financial audit experiences and make architectural decisions.
  • Own and resolve the most complex engineering challenges on the team.
  • Design and build new agent-driven workflows, balancing AI and human roles.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to influence product development early on.
  • Mentor peers through code reviews and problem-solving discussions.
  • Contribute to the team's hiring and elevate the recruitment process.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership.
  • Flexible PTO for work-life balance.
  • 401k to help secure financial futures.
  • Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions.
  • Technology & Work from Home reimbursement to support remote work.
  • Flexible work schedules to suit personal needs.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Financial Audit team at Fieldguide. Financial Audit is one of our most important strategic bets right now, and this is a high-impact role on a team that's building something new. We're not bolting AI onto traditional workflows; we're rethinking financial audit as agentic-first from the ground up. You'll own major workstreams tied to our largest customer onboardings and most ambitious product bets, working alongside engineers, product managers, designers, and financial audit subject matter experts who are all deeply embedded in the problem.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll write code every day, and increasingly write code with AI. We're an AI-native team using tools like Claude Code extensively, and we expect this person to push that boundary further.

What You'll Do
  • Set technical direction for agentic financial audit experiences, making architectural decisions that balance autonomy, reliability, and auditability
  • Own the most complex, ambiguous engineering problems on the team and drive them to resolution without needing a well-defined path handed to you
  • Design and build agent-driven workflows from the ground up, defining where AI autonomy is appropriate and where human judgment needs to stay in the loop
  • Partner with product and design to shape what we build, not just how we build it, bringing technical perspective into roadmap and strategy conversations early
  • Mentor and grow the engineers around you through code review, pairing, and the way you approach and communicate hard problems
  • Contribute to our interview process and help us raise the bar as we scale the team

Who You Are
  • A seasoned full-stack engineer with a track record of driving large, complex projects from an ambiguous problem to production
  • Experienced in setting technical direction at the team or org level, not just delivering within it
  • Comfortable operating where the requirements are unclear and the right answer isn't obvious
  • A strong technical collaborator who influences product and design decisions
  • Already using AI coding tools as a core part of how you work, and thoughtful about where agentic approaches create real leverage
  • Able to build deep domain knowledge fast; you don't need to know financial auditing today, but you'll understand it well enough to make the right technical calls within months
  • A multiplier on the engineers around you; your impact extends well beyond your own code

Bonus Points
  • Experience in financial services, audit, accounting, or compliance
  • Prior work building AI or agent-driven product experiences
  • Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL
  • Background working at high-growth startups where you wore a lot of hats
  • Experience with document processing or infrastructure work

Some of our benefits include:
  • Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
  • Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
  • Flexible work schedules

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