Platform Engineer

FSH Technologies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FSH Technologies in New York City is seeking a platform-oriented software engineer who thrives on building scalable backend and frontend tooling. You will design and maintain platforms that empower product teams to move fast. You will mentor client engineers and apply customer outcomes to simplify complex software abstractions.

A culture of craftsmanship and curiosity guides the team. Join a small, high-agency group delivering impactful software for the public sector from offices in NYC or

Qualifications

• Shipping software to users.
• Experience building and maintaining platforms.
• Experience in venture-backed environments.
• Civic background is a plus.

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

Platform development

Venture-backed experience

Civic background

Job description

About FSH Technologies

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 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.

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] 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

• You love pattern seeking

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