Languages - Go, Typescript, Postgresql
Frameworks / Infra - Encore, Next.js, Vercel, GCP, Render
About you
We are looking for a startup-focused and experienced software engineer, who is keen on solving the real-world problems in an industry ripe for innovation.
- You communicate well and think from first principles.
- You are endlessly curious and open-minded to working in new ways.
- You pride yourself on speed and accuracy.
- You’ve made meaningful tech contributions in your previous roles.
- You have experience communicating directly to product users to come up with technical requirements.
- You have the confidence to operate autonomously and understand when collaboration is required to drive the project forward.
- You want to be close to the customer experience and see the impact of your work.
- You proactively keep up with tech trends and want the opportunity to implement simple but powerful technologies to drive the company forward.
You’ll be working closely on a daily basis with our VP of Engineering and Principle Designer to distill business discussions into technical requirements.
What you’ll do
- Discuss requirements directly with our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and everything in between.
- Design, develop and maintain our customer-facing app and internal backoffice tool.
- Drive architectural decisions and optimise efficiency across the tech stack.
- Keep a keen eye on the customer experience to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.
- Ship new features and fixes quickly.
- Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a culture of excellence.
- Challenge the status-quo
Technical requirements
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- 2+ years writing production-ready code for frontend as well as backend.
- React (Typescript) + Golang
- 2+ years writing SQL (Postgres) for query optimisation, migrations and analysis.
- Experience with serverless applications, containerisation (e.g. Docker) and CI/CD.
- Experience in managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.
Bonus points
- Startup experience
- Experience with Python web services (e.g. FastAPI, Django).
- Data engineering experience using PyData stack technologies (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
- Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs, RAGs utilising embeddings.
- Data science experience - from raw data to meaningful insights.
Technology
Frontend: Typescript, Next.js, Vercel
Backend: Go, Postgres, Encore.dev, Google Cloud, Python
Services: GitHub, Sentry, Stytch, OpenAI
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