Member of Technical Staff

Finch • New York, NY

4h • $180,000 - $280,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Finch is hiring engineers to build software that makes justice more accessible by automating administrative work in consumer law. The role focuses on turning repetitive, paper-based legal workflows and fragmented data into clear, useful software through well-designed systems and applied AI. You will own major features end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production release, and help scale foundational software for Finch’s legal team while developing attorney-facing surfaces and exploring new products and services. You will build reliable, performant systems across core workflows using Python/Django, React, and AWS, and work closely with strategy and operations, product, growth, and legal teams to determine what to build and why. The role also contributes to Finch’s engineering culture, standards, and practices. The team works together in its NYC office four days a week.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience building reliable, secure software in production.
• Strong product sense, including the ability to lead discovery and prioritize what to build and why.
• A track record of writing clean, testable, maintainable code, with attention to observability and performance.
• Judgment to turn ambiguous problems into useful software and take responsibility for outcomes.
• A working style grounded in urgency, ownership, and care for the people using the software.
• Proficiency in Python and React, or demonstrated ability to learn new technology stacks quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Django, AWS, or OpenAI APIs.
• Experience at an early-stage startup and helping establish engineering standards.
• Familiarity with document processing or data-heavy workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production release.
• Scale foundational software for Finch’s legal team and build software and other attorney-facing surfaces.
• Explore and build new products and services as the company identifies opportunities for technology to make legal help more accessible.
• Build reliable, performant systems across core workflows using Python/Django, React, and AWS.
• Ship AI-powered functionality that makes legal complexity clear and usable for legal professionals and law firms.
• Collaborate with strategy and operations, product, growth, and legal teams to define what gets built and why.
• Help shape engineering culture, standards, and practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed