Engineering Manager, Fonoa
+Equity
Tax automation for the internet economy
Open for applications
Tax automation for the internet economy
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the manual work when dealing with taxes on online transactions.
Role
Who you are
- You are fully proficient in English. Written and spoken, as we are a bunch from around the world, but we work in English
- You optimise for distributed and asynchronous work, favouring documenting and taking notes over having ad-hoc face-to-face meetings that leave no trace and exclude the people who were not around at the right time
- You have a strong sense of ownership, you care about what you build, and you are building the right thing that serves your customers
- You focus on people; are able to hire the right people, distribute and organise, able to develop your team through constant feedback, keep them healthy and focus on retention
- You like to optimise processes to speed up product development without sacrificing quality
- You’re a builder at heart. You like the opportunity of having tons of exposure, making things work for a company long-term, and having an entrepreneurial attitude for anything that comes your way
- You are either eager to learn or comfortable scaling and operating large-scale microservices in high-load and growth environments
- You are knowledgeable in a couple of languages. Most of our current codebase is in Go and Typescript
- You enjoy removing unused features more than shipping new things that no one cares about. You run away from success theatre
- You ship small things fast, continuously, and iteratively, learning on each step
- You like to use data over opinions to make decisions. And are okay with finding the data yourself when it’s missing
- You are comfortable with change, either in priorities, goals or deadlines. You see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle. You are also comfortable with challenging the status quo and pushing for change
- You’re looking to make a serious impact, and are excited about working in a high growth startup
What the job involves
- Engineering plays a very central part in the business
- As a company with ambitions to be a world-class API solution for all things tax, we value quality over quantity when building. We also care about creating scalable, easy-to-operate, and maintainable 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; 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, constant iteration and trust over competition and perfect solutions
- We support each other, are kind by nature, and give as much feedback as possible to improve as professionals
- We break 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 not satisfied with the status quo and push for change
- 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, learning with each step
- We are comfortable making mistakes. We don’t blame and consider every failure an opportunity to improve
- We measure everything, use the data to make decisions, and influence the organization
- We don’t allow blockers to prevent us from delivery. We step out of our comfort zone to find the solution and collaborate with other teams to move the initiatives forward
- We have a suite of API products that automate tax-related workflows for any internet company. Those products are Lookup, Tax, Returns, Data sharing and E-Invoicing
- We may discover novel customer needs as we learn and spin up new products as required
- 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 API works and how it is structured
- 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
- Partnering with the Product Manager, co-owning the product roadmap
- Guiding on day-to-day tactical work, hiring, onboarding, developing and mentoring. Your success is your team’s success
- Contribute to the wider engineering culture and goals, working on high-level strategy with other Engineering Managers and our CTO
- Constantly think about building the best API product, experience and capabilities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
It's never been simpler to set up a business online. Tools like Stripe, Intercom, and Twilio have enabled entrepreneurs to sell to millions of consumers and businesses across borders. But managing tax compliance remains a minefield that gets even more intense as companies grow and scale internationally. Fonoa removes the challenge of managing indirect taxes from the everyday business of digital-native companies, with a suite of plug-and-play products that make up its global tax compliance platform.
The company achieves this by easily integrating APIs into customer data to eradicate manual tax processes. Fonoa has grown and expanded its product suite heavily since launching in late 2018 with customers including Booking.com, Spotify, Teachable, Uber, and Zoom relying on the platform to enable it to remain tax-compliant and reduce operating costs.
Fonoa's 2022 Series B funding allows the company to further its expansion plans, which includes becoming a fully international player offering services on a global scale. Fonoa is focusing on a full tax stack approach for growth, prioritising technology to suit the digital business models of today. Through this, the company is well-poised to tackle an almost unending market that has catapulted startups like Stripe to Unicorn status.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$20.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $85m
Company benefits
- Freedom to work fully remote: You choose the location, we are flexible
- We provide all the necessary equipment: Fully equipped tech gear and whatever you need for your ideal office workspace
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays in your local country
- We provide access to any learning courses, certifications, and tools through the world’s leading learning platforms
- Bi-weekly paid lunch: We come online together on Fridays
- Access to co-working hubs: You choose how to run your schedule
- Flexibility and efficiency: We like writing to communicate when meetings are pointless, and meet when it matters
- We host bi-annual company off-sites along with individual team off-sites up to twice a year
- We also have a Book Club, as a group, we choose what we read and then discuss it during a fortnightly morning huddle enjoying our breakfast, and coffee
Company values
- Ownership: Be an owner not a renter
- Problem first. Solution Second: Before starting any work on a solution, make sure to really understand the problem
- Simplicity: We seek to solve complex issues and present simple solutions to our customers
- Disagree and commit: We express our disagreements, but we stand behind team decisions
- Bias for action: In order to compete we must outperform. Speed and agility matter
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
Articles
Leadership
Davor Tremac
(CEO)Prior to Fonoa, Davor was a GM at Uber for Southeastern Europe for 4 years, worked in consulting with McKinsey for a decade, and founded a VC-backed startup, Gourmeo.
Ivan Ivanković
(COO)Prior to Fonoa, Ivan was a Senior Operations and Logistics Manager at Uber in Croatia and Spain, ran his own consulting company, worked in the telecom innovation space, and built an e-commerce startup.
Filip Sturman
(CPO)Before Fonoa, Sturman was a business operator at Uber, Uber Eats, and Trivago between Croatia, Spain, and Germany.
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