Findigs, Inc. Career Growth & Development

What makes your current role a dream job? What do you get to do that you didn’t at other companies? What perks/value-add do you see as the most beneficial?

I joined as a senior engineer in February 2024 and transitioned to engineering management in January 2025. If you’re a curious soul, Findigs is a great place to work and grow.

We have some good perks, like 401(k) matching, free lunches and mental health days. But it’s the high-trust environment, values-driven culture and refreshingly open communication that makes working at Findigs different. If you want meaningful work and real opportunities for growth, Findigs is a wonderful place to build things that matter.

What do you think helped you land the job? Were you able to bring any special expertise or project experience that Findigs found valuable?

Intentionally framing my experience really helped me stand out in the interview process. Of course, I had to show them I could code. But I also wanted interviewers leaving the conversation thinking I could:

Go deep. Understand the objective, how it works, where it fits into the bigger picture and what you’re trading off with your approach. Choose stories that show you can navigate the depths, not just splash around in shallow water.

Think like an explorer. Trek into new domains, experiment with different tools, and navigate uncharted technical territory. Treat your past experiences like a scrapbook — draw from them the way you’d tell stories to a friend.

Tell stories clearly. I lean on frameworks like the situation-task-action-result method or the requirements-architecture-data-interface-optimization method to structure my thoughts. It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees when you’re deep in details, but a good narrative structure keeps everyone on the same page.

Tend the garden. Show interviewers you don’t just plant new features — you weed out bugs, prune unused code, and water with small refactors. Build systems to monitor and write care manuals for your garden.

What do you think helps engineers move up quickly or be the top pick for a competitive employer? What should engineers seek out if they hope to move up or be hired by their “dream” company?

Most engineers plateau by chasing trendy frameworks over fundamentals and avoiding their chores — documentation, monitoring, refactoring and fixing tech debt. The ones who land dream jobs pick important problems, get really good at solving them over two to three years, and then demonstrate that expertise where others can see it. My advice is to do the following:

• “Seek out projects where you can measure business impact. Look for work where you can track real metrics — user engagement, conversion rates and cost savings — not just feature delivery.”
• “Stay curious about both the craft and your company’s domain. Sit in on product meetings, customer calls or strategy sessions to understand the “why” behind what you’re building.”
• “Pursue end-to-end ownership opportunities by leading projects from conception through maintenance. Companies value engineers who can own outcomes.”
• “Find ways to demonstrate independent thinking publicly. Write about complex problems you’ve solved, contribute to open source, or document your debugging process for gnarly issues.”
• “Take charge of your own growth. Look for skill gaps on your team or upcoming technical challenges and proactively fill them.”