Engineering Manager, Fonoa
+Equity
Tax automation for the internet economy
Job no longer available
Tax automation for the internet economy
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+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. Since launching in 2018, the company has expanded its product suite heavily and secured big-name clients such as Booking.com, Spotify, Teachable, Uber and Zoom.
With strong funding under its belt, Fonoa has continued to develop towards becoming a fully international player offering services on a global scale. The company 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 other startups to Unicorn status.
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Insights
196% employee growth in 12 months
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.
Filip Sturman
(Co-Founder & COO)Former CPO of the company. Before Fonoa, was a business operator at Uber, Uber Eats, and Trivago between Croatia, Spain, and Germany.
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