Staff Software Engineer, Taxfix
Steuerbot
Digital tax solutions
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Digital tax solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Strong professional experience as a fullstack engineer, with deep backend expertise and confidence owning frontend work when needed
- Preferably strong Golang skills, and solid experience with modern frontend development using JavaScript and TypeScript
- Proven system design ability: you can explain trade-offs clearly, make decisions with imperfect information, and keep systems evolvable
- Experience operating containerized services in production and working with Kubernetes or similar orchestration tooling
- A quality mindset: you care about automated testing, safe releases, and building systems that are understandable for others
- Professional fluency in German
- Familiarity with generative AI tools
- You are a diversity champion
- 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
What the job involves
- As a backend developer, you’ll be part of a shared team between Steuerbot and Taxfix, directly led by the Steuerbot founders
- You'll help us develop the unique technology that enables and accelerates the growth of Steuerbot and Taxfix
- At the same time, you'll have the opportunity to further expand existing approaches in areas like CI/CD and test automation
- Beyond pure development, you'll also have the chance to dive into exciting topics such as machine learning, database optimization, or data engineering
- We're happy to give you time to explore new areas and grow your skills!
- Build, improve, and maintain fullstack functionality across our backend services and web frontend, with a focus on correctness, performance, and maintainability
- Design and evolve APIs and system boundaries so teams can move fast without creating fragile dependencies
- Collaborate closely with product and design partners to shape solutions, clarify edge cases early, and deliver features end to end
- Strengthen release safety and developer experience by improving continuous integration and delivery practices and test automation
- Take ownership of production health for the parts of the system you work on, including observability, incident response, and follow-up improvements through the on-call rotation
- Drive pragmatic architectural improvements that reduce complexity over time, rather than adding it
- Lead through influence by mentoring, unblocking, and setting a high bar for engineering quality without needing direct reports
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: $326.9m
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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