# Engineer - Platform at FSH Technologies

> Onsite · United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3AFSH%3Aa4e2b635-6cf6-486e-ab22-86f58f898764 (read 2026-11-06).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [FSH Technologies](https://alderhq.app/companies/fsh-technologies)
- Location text: Philadelphia; New York City
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: Philadelphia; New York City")
- Posted: 2026-10-20 (17 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-03
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/FSH/a4e2b635-6cf6-486e-ab22-86f58f898764
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $150k–$250k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (Philadelphia, n 16): p25 $91k, median $105k, p75 $136k

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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.

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