Finch
Finch
Finch builds unified API infrastructure for connecting HRIS and payroll systems. Its platform brings employment and payroll data into one developer-friendly layer, helping companies in HR tech, employee benefits, B2B fintech, and related sectors support financial insights, payroll deductions, compliance workflows, and privacy-conscious data operations. With a team of 11–50 employees, Finch focuses on making employment infrastructure easier to integrate and manage.

Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure — Finch (Hybrid)

Lead Finch’s platform infrastructure and developer experience function. Manage engineers while advancing security, reliability, tooling, and architecture for employment technology.

Description

  • Champion Finch’s values of empathy, execution, humility, and curiosity
  • Lead and develop a five-person platform engineering team through hiring, one-on-ones, performance reviews, career development, and culture building
  • Own the platform roadmap in partnership with senior engineers
  • Prioritize infrastructure stability, developer tooling, security, and architectural improvements
  • Make technical trade-off decisions involving technical debt, new capabilities, build-versus-buy choices, optimization, and rewrites
  • Review Terraform and guide sound architectural decisions
  • Work with product engineering teams and leadership to align platform investments with company priorities
  • Explain platform constraints and technical trade-offs clearly
  • Establish platform engineering standards for infrastructure as code, observability, deployment practices, and incident response
  • Improve team productivity, engineering processes, and delivery efficiency continuously
  • Lead infrastructure initiatives spanning CI reliability, observability consolidation, PII encryption, data contamination prevention, monolith decomposition, and database scaling

Requirements

  • At least seven years of software engineering experience, including substantial platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps work
  • At least two years of experience managing people
  • Hands-on platform engineering experience with infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines
  • Ability to lead engineering teams through complex technical projects involving ambiguity, changing priorities, and cross-team dependencies
  • Demonstrated success developing engineers through performance management, career development, and difficult conversations
  • Experience prioritizing substantial backlogs and balancing technical debt, new features, stability, and developer experience
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Ability to combine hands-on technical contribution with people leadership
  • Experience partnering across functions to deliver infrastructure improvements
  • Strong debugging ability across applications, infrastructure, and networking
  • Strong understanding of testing best practices; test-driven development is a bonus
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or equivalent tools
  • Experience with AWS services and infrastructure as code; Terraform is strongly preferred
  • Experience working with a distributed messaging system
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
  • Demonstrated people management experience, including one-on-ones, performance reviews, career development, and conflict resolution
  • Experience planning and prioritizing roadmaps amid competing demands
  • Experience managing and communicating with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Experience hiring and building high-performing teams
  • Ability to shape engineering culture and establish technical standards

Benefits

  • Equity is available for all full-time roles, with a 10-year exercise window
  • Flexible monthly stipend
  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 85% dependent coverage
  • Unlimited vacation policy with a three-week minimum
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Company offsite trips
  • Offices in San Francisco and New York City

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