Platform Engineer
FSH Technologies · New York, NY · Philadelphia, PA
Build and maintain the internal platform and code generation tools that turn declarative configuration into full-stack applications. Treat other engineering teams as customers, mentor client engineers and technical operators, and turn customer needs into simplifying abstractions.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain platforms that enable building products quickly and robustly
- Mentor client engineers and technical operators
- Translate customer desires into simplifying software abstractions
- Define engineering culture
Requirements
- Experience shipping software to users
- Experience building and maintaining platforms
- Live in New York City or Philadelphia and work from the office
Nice to have
- Experience working at a venture backed company
- Demonstrated enthusiasm for civic engagement
Skills
Outlined skills are listed as required.
Full original 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.