Platform Engineer

Mission

Finch was started by 2 friends (Nino & Steph 🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏻‍♀️) who struggled with anxiety and depression and found self-care challenging to stick with. We decided to build Finch hoping to make self-care fun and accessible after seeing many others share similar struggles. Finch was launched in 2021, and our team is grateful to have helped over 20 million people on their mental health journeys.

Finch is profitable and we believe in responsible growth. We are a small but mighty team who are passionate about mental health.

Role Summary

Finch has unique platform engineering opportunities as we continue to grow our user base and expand our product offerings. To achieve these goals we need to iterate rapidly but sustainably with a small team of engineers and the platform team is essential to enable this. If you're excited about building the backbone of a mental health app that impacts millions of lives, read on!

Key Responsibilities

• As the 2nd platform engineer you will play a critical role in creating and maintaining our platform.

• You will work cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and product managers to support the needs of our product teams.

• You will work with high autonomy and speed.

• You will work on a wide variety of projects ranging from internal tools to abstractions, developer processes, and backend infrastructure.

• You will be an advocate and thought partner for the long term health and sustainability of our product and technologies.

Projects You Could Work On

• Developing a localization abstraction so we can translate our app to other languages.

• Managing how user data is stored and accessed to balance between performance, security, and product feature requirements.

• Rewriting our animation engine to enable more complex animations without incurring performance hits.

• Building a comprehensive monitoring and alerting system so we can identify, and investigate regressions and bugs more quickly.

• Leveraging code generation and automation to both speed up development and reduce error rates for common coding patterns.

• Creating a notification scheduling system that can operate at scale.

Requirements

• You have experience designing clean and maintainable APIs.

• You can communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to both a technical and non-technical audience.

• You can balance short term product needs against long term sustainability, advocate for the right tradeoffs and provide alternatives where possible.

• Nice to haves: Experience developing Flutter mobile apps. Experience working on products in the wellness or game industry.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth on a mission-driven team

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that values innovation and creativity