Software Engineer, Integrations

**About Finch**We are on a mission to empower innovators to access the global employment ecosystem and connect the world's employers under a single API. To do this, we're looking for individuals who think about problems holistically and in-depth, who are relentlessly curious, self-starters, and determined to drive ideas from inception through to completion.Finch is a Series B company backed by a fantastic set of firms, angels, and our developers including General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Homebrew, BoxGroup, YCombinator, Charley (1st business hire at Plaid), Sima (ex-Head of Biz Dev at Plaid), Henrique + Pedro (co-CEOs at Brex), Jeff + Wayne (co-CEOs at Digits), Immad (CEO at Mercury), Sam (CEO at Vouch Insurance), Karim (CTO at Ramp), and more.**About Our Team**We're a team of problem solvers who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We value velocity, curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives. Everyone on the team is excited about the scope of the problems we address and the potential impact our work can have on the global workforce. We realize that the value we provide comes with great responsibilities, and therefore make security and privacy our highest priorities.**Team Integrations**Team Integrations focuses on managing Finch’s external-facing integrations to maintain and expand on the coverage, depth, and reliability of data retrieval from employment systems on behalf of employers. Integrations are the most critical component of our infrastructure as they control the transfer of data across numerous employment systems to be served efficiently to our customers. As a software engineer on Finch’s Integrations team, you will help expand the access of data across our many integrations while improving integration quality and reliability.**About you****What You Will Do**:- Live by and champion our values: empathy, execution, humility, and curiosity- Design, build, and maintain powerful services to enable Finch’s data presentation layer- Build new integrations and improve on the existing ones- Develop, test, and maintain integrations to meet security, scalability, and performance requirements to ensure that our services run reliably and efficiently at scale- Deploy code daily- Contribute to large product initiatives that may span across multiple teams- Understand roadmap priorities and write code focused on scalability, testability, and maintainability- Quickly debug issues throughout our stack using modern observability tooling and your solid foundation of engineering knowledge**What You Will Bring**:- Degree and 5+ years of relevant backend development experience in a start-up environment- Track record of executing and delivering on projects with high ambiguity- Detail-oriented approach to challenges and the ability to drive initiatives to completion- Exposure to high-growth start-ups- Knowledge of agile best practices and how to leverage them to release faster- Technical understanding of the software development process- Exceptional written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, including technical leaders and executive management- Experience working cross-functionality across multiple teams to deliver high-quality products- Experience working in a remote-first environment**Skills**:- Experience working with APIs- Knowledge of system-design best practices and experience working with distributed systems- Experience using Git in a professional environment- Experience working with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis- Experience using a cloud provider. AWS is a bonus- Experience using a distributed messaging system is a bonus- Knowledge of testing best practices. TDD is a bonus