Staff Software Engineer, App Platform
FieldguideBase Salary
$210k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of core platform services, foundational systems, APIs, and shared primitives.
- Build reusable platform capabilities that increase the leverage of product and AI engineers.
- Define architecture for delivering capabilities across SaaS, single-tenant enterprise, and government-cloud environments.
- Partner with product, design, and AI engineering leaders to translate customer needs into platform investments.
- Drive cross-team initiatives that improve product velocity, system reliability, and application consistency.
- Own standards for service design, data modeling, and platform integration patterns.
- Maintain and evolve the internal developer platform, including deployment tooling and agentic engineering capabilities.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise the organization’s platform engineering standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services.
- Strong experience designing APIs, services, and shared systems for other engineers to build on.
- Strong fluency with modern cloud platforms, AWS preferred, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams without direct ownership of those teams.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to contribute to and review complex codebases.
- Strong product judgment and experience shipping platform capabilities that deliver customer outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for alignment across engineering, product, and design.
- Experience building platforms for AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces, is a bonus.
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments is a bonus.
- Experience as a founding or early platform engineer at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Flexible time off and work schedules
- Technology reimbursements
- 401(k) plan
- Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
- Wellness benefits starting on the first day
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Equity is included in the compensation package
Tech Stack
About Fieldguide
Fieldguide is a leading AI-native platform transforming how audit, advisory, and assurance work gets done. Purpose-built for regulated environments, Fieldguide brings professionals and agentic AI together to modernize engagement delivery from planning through close, enabling audit and advisory practitioners to deliver higher-quality work, strengthen client experiences, and unlock growth for the decade ahead. Fieldguide is trusted by leading firms including KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, CBIZ, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), CohnReznick, Wipfli LLP, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Cherry Bekaert, Aprio LLP, UHY Advisors Inc., Weaver, LBMC, Elliott Davis, Frazier & Deeter, Cohen & Co, BerryDunn, Schellman, and Warren Averett, among others. Fieldguide is also the recipient of the Accounting Today Top New Products Award as well as a five time winner of the CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award. Fieldguide is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, and other leading investors. Fieldguide announced its $75m series C in February 2026 and has raised $125m to date.