Engineer - Platform

FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda); Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) seeks an engineering professional skilled at shipping software and building scalable platforms. Our team emphasizes customer outcomes, internal tooling, and a culture of craft.

You will mentor client engineers, translate customer desires into simplified abstractions, and contribute to defining our engineering culture. This role requires a track record of shipping product-ready software and a passion for civic-minded impact; offices in NYC or Philadelphia with

Qualifications

• Experience shipping software to users.
• Experience building and maintaining platforms.
• Preferred: Experience working at a venture-backed company.
• Preferred: Demonstrated enthusiasm for civic engagement.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Shipping software to users

Building platforms

Venture-backed experience

Civic engagement enthusiasm

Job description

About FSH

FSH Tech builds modern software that just works for the public sector. When we deliver, taxpayer dollars go further, agencies move faster, and millions of Americans get tangibly better service and quality of life.

Local governments, schools, libraries, and emergency services run on brittle software that was built decades ago. This results in wasted budgets, broken workflows, and bad outcomes for the public. We believe that the institutions closest to people's daily lives deserve products as good as anything in the private sector. We're building them.

We're a small, high-agency team. The people who do their best work here are:

• Relentlessly optimistic in creating a better world now

• Driven to maximize societal impact

• Brilliant and creative

About FSH Engineering

Our ideal candidate is an expert in their craft. They gain energy from understanding how their chosen tools work, and have used their tools to build software many times. Our ideal candidate is obsessively curious, motivated by customer outcomes, and is a technical artist.

We use Python, Postgres, Unix, TypeScript and React to build software. 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.

About the Role

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] Demonstrated enthusiasm for civic engagement

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

• You love pattern seeking

  • 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, lunch bronchi, broccoli, and lightning bolts all demonstrate related patterns

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