Engineering Manager, Taxfix
Cloud & SRE
+ Employee stock options
More information about location
Digital tax solutions
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Digital tax solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Employee stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years leading an engineering team (hiring, coaching, performance management, career development)
- Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure - you can guide architectural decisions and hold a high quality bar
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure transferable)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes in production, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Active user of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
- Exposure to AI/ML supporting infrastructure such as agent observability, model serving, AI development lifecycle, or ML pipeline operations
- Track record of driving team outcomes using metrics, OKRs, or KPIs
- Effective communicator across engineering, product, and leadership audiences
- Experience with Agile/Scrum
- Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously
Desirable
- Experience with platform consolidation, multi-cloud environments, or infrastructure migrations
- SRE practices: SLOs, incident management, on-call, observability
- GCP Landing Zones, GitOps (ArgoCD/Kargo), or service mesh
- Cloud cost optimization experience
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads at scale (GPU scheduling, model deployment infrastructure, vector databases)
- Background managing platform/infrastructure teams specifically
What the job involves
- Lead and grow the team:
- Hire, coach, and develop cloud/SRE engineers - run meaningful 1:1s, set development goals, and actively manage performance
- Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Champion AI adoption within the team - encourage AI-assisted workflows and continuously raise the bar on how AI is used to improve productivity
- Evaluate capacity, balance workloads, and advocate for the resources your team needs
- Own delivery and reliability:
- Own the team's outcomes against OKRs - prioritise effectively, track progress with metrics, and delegate without micromanaging
- Ensure rigorous deployment pipelines, production readiness, and incident management practices
- Drive SLO adherence and operational excellence across production infrastructure
- Shape platform strategy:
- Partner with Technical Leadership and Architecture to align infrastructure work with the technology strategy
- Lead your team's contribution to platform consolidation and evolution across the Taxfix group
- Support AI/ML platform needs - including agent observability, AI workload infrastructure, and AI development lifecycle tooling
- Evaluate technical trade-offs - balancing reliability, cost, security, and delivery speed - and communicate them clearly to stakeholders
- Partner across the org:
- Bridge your team and its stakeholders: Product Engineering, AI Engineering, Security, Data, and Architecture
- Align priorities with peer EMs across Platform Engineering
- Proactively surface blockers, manage dependencies, and keep information flowing
Our take
For many people, filing taxes is still a painstaking, confusing and outdated process. In Germany alone, around 10 million people each year decide not to claim their tax refund for this reason. Taxfix solves this problem by making it easier to file tax returns and claim rebates.
Taxfix serves as a personal tax accountant, something that many of its users don't have access to. The app functions much like any chatbot, offering in-depth guidance and optimising the tax filing process. Users can typically file their taxes in under 20 minutes using the app, which will appeal to anyone looking to save time and effort on their personal finances.
Taxfix is not alone in offering this service, but it sets itself apart from rivals thanks to its mobile-first approach. The company has been well-served by its innovative and attractive app interface and acquired its German competitor Steuerbot in 2023. A year later it entered the UK market by acquiring smaller competitor Taxscouts, establishing itself as the European leader in its sector.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Apr 2020
$65m
SERIES C
Total funding: $326.6m
Company benefits
- A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals
- Holistic wellbeing with free mental health coaching sessions, yoga, and a discounted membership to Urban Sports Club
- A monthly allowance to spend on home support services, including childcare, housekeeping, pet sitting, tutoring, and elderly care
- 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
- Full trust to take ownership of your work in a flat hierarchy where feedback is encouraged and expected
- A generous learning budget to support your personal and professional development and guidance from our internal L&D experts
- 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 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
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
Leadership
Mathis Büchi
(Chairman & Co-founder)Previously co-founded Encounter Korea and Smallpdf. Currently Founder and CEO at Genova.ai.
Lino Teuteberg
(Co-founder)Former CEO of the company. Previously worked as an Interaction Developer at springen, and co-founded Smallpdf.
Martin Ott
(CEO)Was a Board Member at AfriKids, President and Managing Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at WeWork, and VP, MD (Central Europe) at Meta.
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