Engineering Manager, Platform

About Finch

We are on a mission to revolutionize employment by building the infrastructure that powers every facet of work. To do this, we're looking for individuals who think about problems holistically and in-depth, who are relentlessly curious, self‑stators, and determined to drive ideas from inception through to completion.

Finch is a Series B company backed by a fantastic set of firms, angels, and our developers including General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Homebrew, Box Group, YCombinator, Charley (first business hire at Plaid), Sima (ex‑Head of Biz Dev at Plaid), Henrique + Pedro (co‑CEOs at Brex), Jeff + Wayne (co‑CEOs at Digits), Immad (CEO at Mercury), Sam (CEO at Vouch Insurance), Karim (CTO at Ramp), and more.

We're a team of problem solvers who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We value velocity, curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives. Everyone on the team is excited about the scope of the problems we address and the potential impact our work can have on the global workforce. We realize the value we provide comes with great responsibilities, and therefore make security and privacy our highest priorities.

We come from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and potential will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns.

You’ve been a platform or infrastructure engineer yourself. You understand the difference between infrastructure‑as‑code and infrastructure‑as‑an‑afterthought. You know what it's like to be paged for a production issue and have used those experiences to build better systems and on‑call practices. You care deeply about technical excellence and team growth. You’re energized by unblocking engineers across the organization and improving their developer experience.

You can prioritize a backlog of projects, make tough trade‑off decisions, and communicate “not yet” with clarity and empathy. You balance hands‑on technical involvement with people leadership. You thrive in environments with high autonomy and limited hand‑holding.

Finch’s Platform team owns the infrastructure and developer experience that powers our engineering organization. You’ll lead a 4‑5 person team with a high‑impact backlog spanning infrastructure stability, developer tooling, architectural decomposition, and security. The team handles tech debt paydown (CI reliability, observability consolidation), security work (PII encryption, data contamination prevention), and architectural decisions (monolith decomposition, database scaling). This is high‑leverage infrastructure work that enables the entire engineering organization.

• Live by and champion our values: #empathy, #execution, #humility, #curiosity.
• Manage and grow a 5‑person platform engineering team: hiring, 1‑on‑1s, performance reviews, career development, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
• Own the platform roadmap alongside senior engineers—prioritize across infrastructure stability, developer tooling, security, and architectural improvements (monolith decomposition, database scaling, observability strategy).
• Make technical trade‑off decisions: tech debt vs. new capabilities, build vs. buy, optimize vs. rewrite. You stay close enough to the code to review Terraform and make informed architectural decisions.
• Partner with product engineering teams and leadership to align platform investments with company priorities and communicate platform constraints and trade‑offs.
• Set platform engineering standards and best practices across infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, deployment practices, and incident response.
• Drive continuous improvement of team productivity, engineering processes, and delivery efficiency.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on platform, infrastructure, SRE, or Dev Ops work
  ; 2+ years of which include people‑management experience.
• Hands‑on platform engineering background
  —You’ve built infrastructure,…