Deployed Software Engineer (Senior or Staff)

About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.

As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

About the Role
We’re hiring Deployed Software Engineers (Senior or Staff) to join our growing team. You will contribute as an engineer, take on leadership within a team, and help drive technical strategy across teams and customers. Leveling will be determined during the interview process based on scope and demonstrated experience.
This is an opportunity to have outsized impact at a company with clear product-market fit and massive growth potential. We’re taking on legacy audit and accounting tools that are decades old, widely disliked, and ripe for disruption.

What You’ll Do
Design, build, and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact

Work directly with customers to identify, ideate, and solve their most challenging problems

Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, & GTM to turn complex problems into elegant, user-focused solutions

Balance iteration speed with long-term maintainability and system health

Continuously improve our tech stack, developer workflows, and reliability practices

Contribute to a supportive, growth-oriented engineering culture based on trust, learning, and excellence

Travel up to 25% of your time

Core Competencies (All Levels)
Technical Craft
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code

Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and GraphQL

Writing maintainable, well-tested, and observable code

Sound judgment around tradeoffs, reliability, and performance

Impact & Execution
Willingness to build a deep relationship with customers and develop creative solutions on our platform

Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver work that moves business outcomes

Clear and proactive communication around progress, risks, and decisions

Ownership mindset - following work through from ideation to production and iteration

Collaboration & Influence
Empathy for teammates and customers; contributes positively to team culture

Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement

Works effectively across disciplines and functions to achieve shared goals

Ability to be a voice for the customer to key stakeholders around the organization

Culture & Growth
Embodies Fieldguide’s values: Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-win, Inclusive

Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes

Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains

Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow.

Higher-Level Responsibilities
At the Senior level, you may:
Lead complex projects or systems, setting technical direction and ensuring long-term health

Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs

Serve as a domain expert within one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend architecture, backend systems, developer experience)

Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team

Manage relationships with some of our most complex customers with unique use-cases

At the Staff level, you may:
Drive company-level technical initiatives and influence cross-team architecture

Set and champion engineering standards for scalability, security, and performance

Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy

Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design

Represent Fieldguide externally through writing, speaking, and open-source contributions

Nice-to-Have Experience
Experience working with Applied AI, especially LLMs

Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains

Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up

History of demonstrated impact working directly with customers

Working with infrastructure or data layers such as AWS, Postgres, and Hasura

Architecting systems for document-heavy workflows, including ingestion, processing, and retrieval

Integrating or building ML-powered systems for document understanding or search

Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)