Engineering Manager

Engineering plays a very central part in the business. As a company with a world-class API solution for all things tax, we prioritise quality over quantity in our development. We care about creating scalable, easy-to-operate, easy-to-expand, and easy-to-maintain software that our customers and daily users can rely on.

Some pointers about our engineering culture:

• Engineers are given customer problems to solve rather than features to build.
• We understand the customer's needs before considering implementation details.
• Engineers are owners of their past, present, and future, encompassing architecture, tools, coding, testing, deployment, operations, and scaling.
• We work in lean, small teams.
• We co-own the product roadmap with product managers.
• We choose collaboration, compassion, and trust over individualism and politics.
• We prefer innovation through constant iteration and trust over competition and perfect solutions.
• We support one another, are naturally kind, and provide constructive feedback to continually improve as professionals.
• We boil down complex problems and consistently seek the most straightforward solutions.
• We take quality and security seriously and factor it into everything we do.
• We are comfortable with change in terms of priorities, goals, and deadlines.
• We see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle.
• We are never satisfied with the status quo and push for improvements.
• We seek those looking to make a severe impact and are excited about working in a high-growth startup.
• We ship fast, continuously, and iteratively multiple times per day, learning with each step.
• We embrace mistakes as a conduit for learning.
• We don’t blame and consider every failure an opportunity to improve.
• We measure everything, use the data to make decisions, and influence the direction.
• We don’t allow blockers to prevent us from delivering.
• We step out of our comfort zone to find solutions and collaborate with other teams to advance initiatives.
• We say things as they are, we don’t beat around the bush, we don’t waste time.
• We ship.

Our products include a suite of standalone API products that automate tax-related workflows for any internet company which together build a comprehensive platform. Those products are Lookup, Tax, Returns, Data sharing, and E-Invoicing. We may discover new customer needs as we learn and develop new products as needed.

For you as an engineer, API documentation is probably an important part when considering a new career move. Thanks to the API docs, you can recognise how an API works and how it is structured. Please visit our API documentation to learn more about our API endpoints and their usage: API Documentation.

Our Tech Stack includes:

• Backend: Node and Go
• Frontend: ReactJS, htmx, and Typescript
• Persistence: PostgreSQL
• Cloud Services: GCP
• Infrastructure Management: Terraform, Kubernetes CRDs, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and DataDog

Job Responsibilities:

• Learn about how painful it is for companies to manually handle the tax lifecycle, and think about how our systems change the status quo.
• Run a product engineering team, aligning business objectives with technical delivery.
• Partner with the Product Manager, co-owning the product roadmap.
• Guide on day-to-day tactical work, hiring, onboarding, developing, and mentoring.
• Your success is your team’s success.
• Contribute to the broader engineering culture and goals by collaborating on high-level strategy with other Engineering Managers and our CTO.
• Continuously strive to build the best API product, leveraging the best experience and capabilities.

Job Requirements:

• You are fully proficient in English, written and spoken.
• You optimise for distributed and asynchronous work, favouring documenting and taking notes over having ad-hoc face-to-face meetings.
• You have a strong sense of ownership and care about what you build.
• You focus on people; you are able to hire the right people, distribute and organise, and develop your team through constant feedback.
• You like to optimise processes to speed up product development without sacrificing quality.
• You’re a builder at heart, enjoying extensive exposure and having an entrepreneurial attitude.
• You are eager to learn or comfortable scaling and operating large-scale microservices in high-load and growth environments.
• You are knowledgeable in several languages, with most of our current codebase in Go and Typescript.
• You enjoy removing unused features more than shipping new things that no one cares about.
• You ship small things fast, continuously, and iteratively, learning on each step.
• You like to use data over opinions to make decisions.
• You are comfortable with change and challenging the status quo.
• You’re looking to make a serious impact and are excited about working in a high-growth startup.

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