Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

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.

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework, and comfort in React/TypeScript on the frontend

• Experience working with relational databases at scale (MySQL, Spanner, or similar)

• A track record of leading technical decisions across multiple teams by building relationships, gaining alignment, and influencing without direct authority

• Strong communication skills: you can explain technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike

• High standards for code quality and a habit of leaving things better than you found them

• Experience in FinTech, financial services, or products with complex compliance requirements

Found is built by a team that comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, and we firmly believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial to our success. As we grow, we’re searching for passionate and motivated team members who are excited to bring their skill set to the team and are ready to learn from others.

If you are looking for a role where you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution and great impact, we would love to hear from you!