Deployed Software Engineer

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners, specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. They build software for people who enable trust between businesses. Based in San Francisco, CA, Fieldguide operates as a remote-first company. They are 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. The company values diversity and aims to build an inclusive, driven, humble, and supportive team. As an early-stage start-up, employees have the opportunity to build the future of business trust, making audit practitioners' lives easier by consolidating up to 50% of their work and improving their work-life balance. If you share their values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide. Fieldguide is hiring Deployed Software Engineers to join their growing team. This role involves contributing as an engineer, taking on leadership within a team, and helping drive technical strategy across teams and customers. The leveling will be determined during the interview process based on scope and demonstrated experience. This position offers an opportunity for significant impact at a company with clear product-market fit and substantial growth potential, aiming to disrupt legacy audit and accounting tools that are decades old, widely disliked, and ripe for disruption.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and GraphQL
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 - following work through from ideation to production and iteration
Empathy for teammates and customers; 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
Embodies Fieldguide’s values: Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-win, Inclusive
Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes
Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains
Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow

Nice To Haves

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
Experience working with Applied AI, especially LLMs
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.)

Responsibilities

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
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, & 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, developer workflows, and reliability practices
Contribute to a supportive, growth-oriented engineering culture based on trust, learning, and excellence
Travel up to 25% of your time
Lead complex projects or systems, setting technical direction and ensuring long-term health (Senior level)
Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs (Senior level)
Serve as a domain expert within one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend architecture, backend systems, developer experience) (Senior level)
Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team (Senior level)
Manage relationships with some of our most complex customers with unique use-cases (Senior level)
Drive company-level technical initiatives and influence cross-team architecture (Staff level)
Set and champion engineering standards for scalability, security, and performance (Staff level)
Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy (Staff level)
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design (Staff level)
Represent Fieldguide externally through writing, speaking, and open-source contributions (Staff level)