Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

About the role

ABOUT FOUND

Small business owners are the backbone of the American economy. But running a small business comes with a challenges: taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, and banking are just a few. That's where we come in.

Found is building tools that give small business owners the security and peace of mind that has historically only been available at large corporations. We automate taxes and expense tracking because small business owners should spend more time doing what they love, and less time buried in their finances.

We're looking for kind, resourceful, and passionate people to join us in building the financial foundation small businesses deserve.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We're hiring a Staff or Principal Software Engineer at Found. This is a high-impact, full-stack role where you’ll drive technical decisions across the company, raise the bar for how we build, and help senior engineers grow.

You'll work across product teams, partner closely with engineering managers and their tech leads, influence how we build across the organization and have ownership over outcomes. You’ll be technically hands-on, and your biggest impact will come from technical judgement and the leadership you bring to decisions that impact the engineering team

WHAT YOU'LL DO

SET TECHNICAL DIRECTION FOR THE COMPANY

- Drive key technical decisions that shape how multiple teams build

- Identify and address reliability, performance, or scalability issues before they become incidents, at a systems level rather than just within a single team

- Build and iterate on customer-facing features in our core product using Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript, staying close enough to the code to make well-grounded calls

- Work across the stack: backend APIs, data modeling in MySQL and Spanner, and polished frontend experiences

RAISE THE BAR ACROSS TEAMS

- Partner with engineering leads to align technical direction across the company, not just within a single team

- Establish patterns, conventions, and standards that make the codebase easier to work in over time, and drive adoption of them across teams

- Contribute to reducing technical debt in a way that's practical and unblocks business goals

- Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-team technical problems and help teams move forward with confidence

DEVELOP THE ENGINEERS AROUND YOU

- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner for senior engineers across teams

- Collaborate closely with engineering managers on technical planning, scoping, and team health

- Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and design conversations

TO THRIVE IN THIS ROLE, YOU HAVE:

- 12+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals and deep technical range

- Prior experience operating at a staff, principal, or architect level