# Deployed Software Engineer (Senior or Staff)

**Company:** [Fieldguide](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fieldguide)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $160k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, AWS, Postgres, Hasura, LLMs, SOC 2
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Deployed Software Engineer (Senior or Staff) contributing as an engineer with leadership responsibilities, working directly with customers on complex problems and driving technical strategy in a remote-first environment.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact
- Work directly with customers to identify, ideate, and solve their most challenging problems
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, & GTM 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
- Travel up to 25% of your time

## 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
- Willingness to build a deep relationship with customers and develop creative solutions on our platform
- 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
- Ability to be a voice for the customer to key stakeholders around the organization

### 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
- Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow

## Higher-Level Responsibilities
### Senior Level
- 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
- Manage relationships with some of our most complex customers with unique use-cases

### Staff Level
- 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 working with Applied AI, especially LLMs
- Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains
- Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up
- History of demonstrated impact working directly with customers
- 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
- Applying information security and compliance principles (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc.)

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