Finch (tryfinch.com) is building unified API infrastructure for employment systems—think Plaid, but for payroll and HR data. We connect 401k providers, insurance companies, and other fintech apps to 200+ payroll providers through a single integration. Series B backed by General Catalyst, Menlo, YC, and angels including founders from Plaid, Brex, Mercury, and Ramp.
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer (10+ years) to lead large cross-team initiatives, design systems for high-volume data processing across complex employment integrations, and help set architectural direction. You'll work with NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. We deploy daily, practice TDD, and care deeply about building reliable, scalable APIs. Strong systems design skills and comfort with ambiguity are key—you'll be defining problems as much as solving them.
Hybrid (2+ days/week in SF or NYC). Equity includes a 10-year exercise window. Full benefits, unlimited PTO with 3-week minimum.
Happy to answer questions here, or apply via the link above.
It is great to hear that feedback. We think this is something that many development teams can utilize in order to build stronger 3rd party API integrations. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Loom API solves 2 of the major problems with third party API integrations:
1. Generation of type-safe clients - We autogenerate API clients from OpenAPI specs allowing you to create clients from both internal and external APIs.
2. Observability - Every API call is logged to our platform which allows you to understand how your APIs are being used and how they are performing in real time.
If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at eric@loomapi.com. We'd love to hear from you!"
Buggy mobile client (andriod) and dumpster tier performance are two areas they have been dropping the ball on since release, and requires innovation in some sense of the word.
Those are both very important. Innovation is generally important and I'm half curious as to why you ask.
> Buggy mobile client (andriod) and dumpster tier performance are two areas they have been dropping the ball on since release, and requires innovation in some sense of the word.
Making your program meet what really should be a minimum acceptable standard is considered innovation now? Multimedia chat clients that performed well and weren't crippled by bugs existed in the 90s.
> Those are both very important. Innovation is generally important and I'm half curious as to why you ask.
Has Slack's attraction ever been that it's an innovative product? My understanding is that it's all about convenience. It's like IRC+bouncer with some shiny things and without the hassle.
> Has Slack's attraction ever been that it's an innovative product?
Yeah, it's just IRC with a new hat, but sure, I'm willing to say it was innovative. Nothing like it existed and now many things like it exist. It was an innovation in the smaller parts - that judging by how things have gone, are maybe not so small.
> Making your program meet what really should be a minimum acceptable standard is considered innovation now?
It's not ~disruptive techmologi~ but it would require genuine innovation in terms of creating a proper cross platform native UI framework, or at the very lest a large shift in their product to move to multiple frameworks (innovation in the company rather than in tech generally.)
Finch (tryfinch.com) is building unified API infrastructure for employment systems—think Plaid, but for payroll and HR data. We connect 401k providers, insurance companies, and other fintech apps to 200+ payroll providers through a single integration. Series B backed by General Catalyst, Menlo, YC, and angels including founders from Plaid, Brex, Mercury, and Ramp.
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer (10+ years) to lead large cross-team initiatives, design systems for high-volume data processing across complex employment integrations, and help set architectural direction. You'll work with NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. We deploy daily, practice TDD, and care deeply about building reliable, scalable APIs. Strong systems design skills and comfort with ambiguity are key—you'll be defining problems as much as solving them.
Hybrid (2+ days/week in SF or NYC). Equity includes a 10-year exercise window. Full benefits, unlimited PTO with 3-week minimum.
Happy to answer questions here, or apply via the link above.