Fieldguide
Commerce
DeployedSoftwareEngineer(SeniororStaff)
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“Deployed Software Engineer (Senior or Staff) at Fieldguide. Skills: software engineering fundamentals, modern web technologies, customer problem solving, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, system health, reliability practices, engineering culture. 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”
Industry & Context.
solve their most challenging problems; turn complex problems into elegant, user-focused solutions
Travel up to 25% of your time
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
software engineering fundamentals, experience shipping production code, 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, Empathy for teammates and 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, Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains
Nice to Have
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 You'll Do.
and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact
Work directly with customers to identify
and solve their most challenging problems
Collaborate cross-functionally with product
& 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
and reliability practices
Contribute to a supportive
growth-oriented engineering culture based on trust
Lead complex projects or systems
setting technical direction and ensuring long-term health
Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs
Serve as a domain expert within one or more technical areas
Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team
Manage relationships with some of our most complex customers with unique use-cases
Drive company-level technical initiatives and influence cross-team architecture
Set and champion engineering standards for scalability
Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering
Represent Fieldguide externally through writing
and open-source contributions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, & GTM; Contribute positively to team culture; Works effectively across disciplines and functions to achieve shared goals; Collaborate with PMs and designers; Mentor other engineers; Partner with engineering and product leadership
Communication Scope
Clear and proactive communication around progress, risks, and decisions; Ability to be a voice for the customer to key stakeholders around the organization; writing; speaking
Process & Methodology
Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver work that moves business outcomes, Lead complex projects or systems, Drive company-level technical initiatives
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses. We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more. We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth. As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re hiring Deployed Software Engineers (Senior or Staff) 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 ri
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