
Senior Developer Success Engineer
Finch
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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