Software Engineer Mid–Staff at Fieldguide | Grow Fast in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Career Growth Potential: This is a multi-level hire (mid → senior → staff), which signals Fieldguide is scaling its engineering org rapidly. Being early at a well-funded startup (Bessemer, Y Combinator) in a disruption play against legacy enterprise software is a strong career accelerator — you'll wear multiple hats and gain broad ownership.
Skills in High Demand: The stack — TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, AWS, Postgres — is highly marketable. Add ML-powered document processing and compliance/audit domain knowledge (SOC 2, FedRAMP) and you build a rare, specialized profile that commands premium compensation across fintech, regtech, and enterprise SaaS.
Compensation Signals: No salary is listed, which is a mild yellow flag for transparency. Market benchmarks for this stack at Series B SF startups: mid-level ~$150K–$175K, senior ~$175K–$220K, staff ~$220K–$280K, all plus equity. "Meaningful equity ownership" is promising language but undefined — worth probing on vesting cliff, strike price, and dilution in interviews.
Culture Green Flags:
- Explicit mentorship and "raising the technical bar" culture — good for growth-minded engineers
- Values-driven language is specific (not just buzzwords) — "11-star experiences" echoes Airbnb-style thinking
- Free therapy and day-one wellness benefits suggest genuine investment in employee wellbeing
Watch Out For: "Fast" as a core value at an audit-tech startup can mean delivery pressure. Confirm sprint cadence, on-call expectations, and how the team handles technical debt before committing.
About Fieldguide
Fieldguide is redefining trust in global commerce by modernizing how cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits are done. We build software that empowers the practitioners who enable trust between businesses—automating and streamlining their work to deliver faster, higher-quality results.
We're a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, and more. Our team values diversity of backgrounds and experiences, and we're deliberate about building an inclusive, humble, and high-performing culture.
About the Role
We're hiring Software Engineers across multiple levels to join our growing team. Depending on your experience and interests, you may contribute as a mid-level engineer, take on leadership within a team, or drive technical strategy across teams and systems. The final level 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.
Our engineering hub is located in San Francisco. This role is open to remote candidates anywhere in the US; Bay Area-based employees will work in a hybrid setting.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design 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
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
- 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
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
- Takes 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
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 or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains
- Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up
- 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
- Implementing DevOps and CI/CD best practices
- Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including free therapy sessions
- Flexible PTO and work schedules
- Technology & work-from-home reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Our Values
Fearless — Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls
Fast — Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection
Lovable — Deliver happiness & 11-star experiences
Owners — Execute & run the business with ownership
Win-win — Create mutual value & earn trust for life
Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams
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