Finch

Senior Developer Success Engineer

Finch

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Proactively manage a portfolio of strategic developer accounts, anticipating technical needs and ensuring high levels of technical satisfaction.
  • Solution for complex customer challenges, defining milestones, providing regular updates, and coordinating across Engineering, Product, Marketing and Executive leadership.
  • Conduct in-depth architectural assessments of customers’ employment data pipelines and deliver actionable recommendations to reduce friction, improve reliability, and optimize onboarding performance.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems across authentication flows (particularly OAuth), API integrations, and data pipeline issues, exploring creative alternative solutions when standard approaches fall short.
  • Develop and implement customized engagement plans tailored to each account’s maturity, integration complexity, and growth potential.
  • Generate monitoring of key account health metrics, identify early warning signals, and take proactive action to mitigate churn risk.
  • Provide domain-specific guidance to developers, leveraging solid expertise in payroll, benefits, HR systems, and the broader employment data ecosystem.
  • Advance Finch’s developer documentation and resources so that integrating with Finch is as self-serve as possible.
  • Explain complex technical concepts effectively to both developers and non-technical stakeholders, adapting communication style to the audience.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Technical Account Management, Professional Services, or Developer Success.
  • A track record of independently managing a portfolio of technical accounts and driving measurable impact.
  • Strong diagnostic skills: you can read logs, interpret error codes, trace request flows, and resolve complex API and integration issues.
  • A strong understanding of API design and development, including REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and data-portability patterns.
  • Comfort working across the stack: you’ve touched Node.js, SQL databases, and caching layers (e.g., Redis), even if you’re not regularly writing production code.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to context-switch fluidly across developers, business stakeholders, and executives.
  • Experience leading or coordinating small projects across teams—you’re comfortable setting direction, defining milestones, and keeping people aligned.
  • Creative problem-solving instincts - you don’t just follow the playbook; you explore alternative solutions and build new ones when needed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
API designREST APIswebhooksOAuthNode.jsSQL databasesdata-portability patternsdiagnostic skillsintegration issuesemployment data pipelines
Soft Skills
communication skillscreative problem-solvingproject coordinationstakeholder managementadaptabilitycustomer satisfactiontechnical guidancemilestone definitionproactive actioncontext-switching