Staff Software Engineer, App Platform

Fieldguide

Staff Platform Engineer designing and building foundational platform services for Fieldguide, a fintech company automating assurance and audit work. Leading technical architecture and mentoring engineers across teams.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and evolution of Fieldguide's core platform services, including the foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives that every product surface and agent depends on
Build platform capabilities that compound the leverage of product and AI engineers, turning hard problems into reusable building blocks
Define the architecture for how new product capabilities get delivered across our SaaS, enterprise single-tenant, and government-cloud environments
Partner directly with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to understand customer needs and translate them into platform investments
Drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity, system reliability, and consistency across the application
Own the standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns used across Fieldguide
Maintain and evolve the internal developer platform that supports the team, including deployment tooling, and agentic engineering capabilities
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the org and raise the bar for platform engineering at Fieldguide

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time spent building product-facing platforms or foundational application services
Strong product instincts and a track record of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes
Deep experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems that other engineers build on top of
Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
Track record of operating as a technical leader across multiple teams without owning them directly
Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy
Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute to and review complex codebases
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design
High agency and a bias toward owning problems end-to-end

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation with equity
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Flexible time off and work schedules
Technology reimbursements
401(k) plan
Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
Wellness benefits starting on your first day

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringAPI designservice designdata modelingplatform integrationcloud platformsKubernetesdistributed systemscode reviewdeployment tooling

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationjudgmentmentoringproblem ownershipcross-team collaborationproduct instinctscustomer focusalignment drivinghigh agency