Engineering Lead, Platform

Every business relies on accounting. Yet most software in the space was built in the early 2000s — clunky, slow, and far behind the curve on AI. Today, accountants are facing a growing, unsolved data problem as a consequence of complexity, data, and system fragmentation — and they lack the tools to solve it. The problems are real, hard, and increasingly urgent. But they're solvable.

Enter Numeric — the modern financial data platform for accounting and finance. Weaving together data, workflows, and AI-first solutions, we're empowering accounting teams to achieve verifiable, detailed financial data faster and make business decisions with greater confidence.

We have strong product market fit and a growing base of customers who love our product — including Anthropic, Plaid, Brex, Betterment, and many more. We're backed by top-tier investors including Menlo Ventures, IVP, Founders Fund, and 8VC, along with founders and executives from Ramp, Segment, and other category-defining companies.

This is a senior role to join as Numeric’s first platform engineer. Your customers will be our own engineering organization, and your mandate is to ensure we can continue to accelerate and improve our own development velocity and quality. The right candidate:

• is technically deep, able to own and execute a variety of projects for tooling and deployment

• is pragmatic; the fewest and simplest tools in the stack will serve velocity best

• loves thinking about developer experience

• has product building experience

You’ll both execute on improvements to our system and drive the long-term vision for the function, working closely with the engineering leadership. This role will also take part in building and shipping features on occasion—we believe you have to play the game on the ground sometimes to inform the work.

We hire excellent engineers, and seek to empower the individual.

We empower generalists, and limit the number of tools and systems one has to know to execute. This leads to a preference for building in-house.

Everyone should know SQL and understand relational databases.

Good execution requires seeing context; all of our engineers understand our users, our domain, and our company’s goals to inform their decision-making.

We meet our users to build empathy and motivate.

As simple as we could keep it. We use Typescript everywhere (React on frontend), depend heavily on Postgres, and follow trunk-based development. Deploys go out through Github, observability runs through Datadog. We use dbt to power our financial reporting system.

More recently, we’ve built a DSL to simulate accounting scenarios, PGLite for end-to-end testing, and use both AWS and Digital Ocean. We hate using AWS, which you could help with.

This role is in person in San Francisco or New York (in office by default but with flexibility to manage your schedule as you see fit).

We strongly believe we will only be successful if everyone on the team is anchored in our following set of core principles:

• Brick by Brick: To win, our team needs to show up and execute in each domain every day.

• Love the Game: We focus on the craft and a deep sense of giving a f*ck. We're building a company full of people who are equally engaged and motivated.

• SALY: We refuse to accept "Same As Last Year." For too long, accounting and finance systems have reflected outdated processes instead of reimagining what's possible. We're driven by a first-principles approach to building better solutions.

• Own the Outcome: We own our results. We typically hire builders and give them large mandates with high-trust. Even in support roles, you're responsible for customer outcomes, not just task completion.

• Earn the Right: We're impatient to deliver results. We relentlessly iterate, measure, and improve. Every day is an opportunity to beat our prior best, raising the bar for the value we deliver to customers.