Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

Our story:

Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.

Spread across Berlin and Madrid, Team Taxfix is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with 500+ professionals from 45+ different nationalities, we're rich in ideas and voices. In four years, we've raised over 300 million euros in funding and helped people reclaim more than one billion euros.

Your challenge:

As our (Senior) Software Engineer, you will be joining our team to build our next generation financial products to support Financial Wellbeing of our users. You will own the user experience end to end and provide a seamless unified experience limiting friction for the user.

You’ll be responsible for supporting the team on their technical delivery. Reporting to our Engineering Manager and collaborating with Product Design, Tax Experts, Data Analysts, Architects, and others, you’ll drive the team’s technical direction and propose improvements, collaborate with other engineers to support them on delivery, and coordinate with stakeholders to help us deliver the best product experience to customers.

Your team:

We trust in Internal Open Source because it cultivates a strong spirit of collaboration and fast evolution while maintaining a high standard of quality. This way of working is possible by using the universal language JavaScript, specifically React, React Native and NodeJS. Everything on our backend runs in Docker—orchestrated by Kubernetes and powered by Google Cloud Platform.

You will be joining our upcoming Financial Services Group which works on building our next generation financial products to support Financial Wellbeing of our users.

Our cross-functional team structure gives developers a broad scope of our stack. We're passionate about decentralised, end-to-end ownership and deep collaboration. We live our development values by learning from one another through internal meetups, hackathons, and close collaboration. Our teams are free to choose how they work and what tools they use to fulfil their tasks.

Your responsibilities and decisions:

• Collaborating with the team and partnering with stakeholders to improve current features and innovate on new development within the Taxfix ecosystem.
• Pair program with other engineers and support them on technical tasks and decision-making
• Contribute to technical decisions and strategy to further the long-term product vision.
• Work on unblocking unique challenges for our teams to improve the user experience.
• Be involved in key product decisions and work close to the whole team to create intuitive and reliable apps.
• Build market-standard quality software that can scale to the ceiling.
• Contribute to discover and tackle technical debt that can prevent us from reaching our ambitious performance objectives

Your profile:

• Experience in Fintech/Banking software development.
• Experience in developing scalable front-end and backend applications.
• +5 years experience with JavaScript (NodeJS + Typescript)
• Ideally some knowledge and experience working with Frontend technologies such as React and Redux
• Enjoy writing maintainable and elegant code, and you know how to establish and maintain good engineering practices in the team.
• You are familiar with agile practices and how to apply them in building complex software products in an iterative way.
• Understanding of DevOps culture, and you have experience implementing automation pipelines to continuously deliver well tested software.
• Experience with integrating with diverse APIs
• Familiarity with Docker is a plus
• A pragmatic person with a strong positive attitude.
• Somebody who can work autonomously and overcome challenges with passion.
• Demonstrate curiosity and passion to continue learning.
• You are fluent in English.

Why Taxfix?

• A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.
• Holistic wellbeing with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
• A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and rollover as flexibly as you like.
• Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.
• Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it.
• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.
• Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal tech meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible.
• Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.
• Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.