Software Engineer - All Levels (Korea)
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Fieldguide · Seoul, South KoreaPrepare for this interview
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About the role
We're hiring Software Engineers across multiple levels to join our growing team. Depending on your experience and interests, you may contribute as a mid-level engineer, take on leadership within a team, or drive technical strategy across teams and systems. The final level will be determined during the interview process based on scope and demonstrated experience. This is an opportunity to have outsized impact at a company with clear product-market fit and massive growth potential. We're taking on legacy audit and accounting tools that are decades old, widely disliked, and ripe for disruption.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver high-quality features that drive customer and business impact
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design to turn complex problems into elegant, user-focused solutions
- Balance iteration speed with long-term maintainability and system health
- Continuously improve our tech stack, developer workflows, and reliability practices
- Contribute to a supportive, growth-oriented engineering culture based on trust, learning, and excellence
- Core Competencies (All Levels)
- Technical Craft
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
- Familiarity with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and GraphQL
- Writing maintainable, well-tested, and observable code
- Sound judgment around tradeoffs, reliability, and performance
- Impact & Execution
- Ability to scope, prioritize, and deliver work that moves business outcomes
- Clear and proactive communication around progress, risks, and decisions
- Ownership mindset - following work through from ideation to production and iteration
- Collaboration & Influence
- Empathy for teammates and customers; contributes positively to team culture
- Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement
- Works effectively across disciplines and functions to achieve shared goals
- Culture & Growth
- Embodies Fieldguide's values: Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-win, Inclusive
- Mentors and supports peers; contributes to hiring and onboarding processes
- Curious and self-driven in learning new skills, technologies, and domains
- Take increasing ownership - from building features to shaping architecture and mentoring others - as you grow.
- Higher-Level Responsibilities
- At the Senior level, you may:
- Lead complex projects or systems, setting technical direction and ensuring long-term health
- Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs
- Serve as a domain expert within one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend architecture, backend systems, developer experience)
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team
- At the Staff level, you may:
- Drive company-level technical initiatives and influence cross-team architecture
- Set and champion engineering standards for scalability, security, and performance
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design
- Represent Fieldguide externally through writing, speaking, and open-source contributions
- Nice-to-Have Experience
- Experience or familiarity with audit, assurance, or risk management domains
- Shaping a new tech stack, product, or engineering org from the ground up
- Working with infrastructure or data layers such as AWS, Postgres, and Hasura
- Architecting systems for document-heavy workflows, including ingestion, processing, and retrieval
- Integrating or building ML-powered systems for document understanding or search
- Implementing DevOps and CI/CD best practices
Benefits
Additional Information
About Fieldguide Fieldguide is redefining trust in global commerce by modernizing how cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits are done. We build software that empowers the practitioners who enable trust between businesses-automating and streamlining their work to deliver faster, higher-quality results. We're based in San Francisco, CA, but built remote-first. We're opening a new office in Seoul, and we're backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.
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