Platform Engineer

Our ideal candidate is an expert in their tools. They’ve used their chosen tools to build software repeatedly, and they gain energy from understanding how the tools work. Our ideal candidate is obsessively curious, motivated by customer outcomes, and is a technical artist.

We use Python, Postgres, and Unix to build and deploy our backends and React.js with TypeScript to build our frontends. We maintain a set of internal tools to deterministically generate Python and Typescript. We obsess over how to build compounding advantages in tooling, software, and product.

FSH engineering will appeal to you if you’d like to work on a team that strives for simplicity in tech stack and approach, aggressively builds internal tools and platforms, has a deeply technical leader, only works on things that move the needle for the business, and doesn’t take itself too seriously.

The FSH approach to building highly configurable software is modeled on Postgres. We describe what a product does as opposed to how it works. To do this at scale and with speed we heavily rely on a set of internal code generation tools that translate declarative configuration files into bespoke full stack applications. Our platform engineering team maintains these tools, often treating other teams as the customer.

What you’ll do

Create and maintain platforms that enable building products quickly, robustly, and elegantly

Serve as a mentor to client engineers and technical operators

Translate customer desires to simplifying software abstractions

Define engineering culture

What you’ll need

Experience shipping software to users

Experience building and maintaining platforms

[preferred] Experience working at a venture backed company

[preferred] A civic background

You’re the right person for the job if:

You believe programming is a creative pursuit

You believe abstractions can simplify complexity

You are obsessed with focused learning

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Modern inventory management is best handled through Venetian double entry accounting

Buddhist meditation and dialectical behavior therapy are closely related

The distribution of crater sizes on the moon follow a power law

Rivers and their tributaries, blood vessels, lung bronchi, broccoli, and lightning bolts all demonstrate related pattern

Employees are expected to live in New York City or Philadelphia and work out of our office in either location.