Experienced Software Engineer, Column Tax
2+ days a week in office
All-in-one income tax products
Open for applications
All-in-one income tax products
21-100 employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to financial help and meaningfully improve people’s lives by providing game-changing tax solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or a related role
- Strong desire to lead, execute, and own their own projects
- Track record of learning new languages, technologies, and patterns on the job
- Comfortable working and reasoning across the stack - frontend, backend, and infrastructure
What the job involves
- At Column Tax, we’re building the next generation of tax preparation software. Come join us to build a delightful, transparent, and easy to use tax filing system. We are on a Ruby on Rails backend, React frontend with Typescript, Chakra
- Improvise, adapt, overcome. We are a lean start-up so everyone is encouraged to participate across teams, and proactively suggest solutions and solve problems
- A focus on empathy, communication and teamwork. Tax software can’t be solved alone. You will be working collaboratively with other engineers, tax analysts, product, and design on almost every project
- The drive and excitement to create product that delights our users
- A strong sense of ownership. Everyone at Column Tax is empowered to shape the product and engineering roadmap. We want
- Build tools and frameworks that enable efficient development and validation of tax coverage- Our tax analysts do the hard work of writing ruby code and our engineers work just as hard to empower them to move quickly with quality
- Build and extend our APIs for our partners - Our partners are key to our success. We empower our partners by writing APIs that make starting the tax filing process seamless and intuitive
- Create UI for the embedded tax platform - Work with design and the tax team to translate complicated tax code into a form that anyone can fill out
- Week 1:
- Meet everyone at Column Tax and get a run down of what everyone does here
- Get set up and push your first commit to production
- Fix 1-2 small bugs to help you get acclimated to the code base
- Month 1:
- Lead and ship your own small sized project
- Review other engineer’s technical specs and pull requests
- Demo your work at our company all-hands!
- Month 3:
- Participate in scoping, spec-ing, and breaking down medium to large scale projects
- Help to shape our team best practices by writing internal documentation, suggesting new practices, and mentoring peers
Application process
- Step 1: Intro call with one of our founders / senior leadership
- We want to get to know you and for you to get to know us! On this call, we will talk about your professional background, what types of problems you like to solve, and what you want out of your next job. It’s also your opportunity to ask with any questions you have about the business, and how else we would be able to support you
- Step 2: Take home technical exercise
- Coding live on a zoom can be stressful and nerve wracking. We give candidates a take-home assignment - time-boxed to 3 hours - to be done any time that is most convenient for you. It is your time to shine by showing off your experience, creativity, and coding style
- Step 3: On-site interview
- Our virtual onsite interview consists of a system design, product review, and pair programming challenge. Here, more of our team members will get the opportunity to meet you and you’ll be able to get a better sense of our team works together. The onsite is expected to be around 3-4 hours total
- Step 4: Offer!
Our take
Year-round access to accountants and tax advisers has long been limited to the wealthy. Column Tax is a mobile income tax software platform that aims to solve this problem by giving ordinary people high-quality, year-round financial support.
Column Tax makes it easier for users to file their taxes and access their tax refunds, which will no doubt appeal to the large percentage of Americans that rely financially on rebates. The company's software differs from programs such as TurboTax in that it is mobile-only, and it integrates with users' existing banking apps. This year-round integration will save users valuable time on their annual tax preparation.
The company has raised considerable investment, and expanded services to cover state tax filings atop its original federal-only offering. In continuing to expand the scope of its products and integrations, Column Tax is building a pathway into future success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$21.7m
SERIES A
Nov 2021
$5.1m
SEED
Total funding: $26.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with a minimum
- High quality, health, vision & dental coverage
- MacBook & home office budget
- Free tax prep each year
Company values
- Focus: we know that doing great work takes long blocks of uninterrupted time
- Ownership: everyone at Column Tax is empowered to make big decisions
- Transparency: expect honest & vulnerable communication
- Vision: everyone on our team dreams big about solving complex problems
- Doing the right thing: Tax is an industry with a history of predatory practices; we’re determined to fix that
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Michael R. Bock
(CTO)Studied Computer Science and Business Administration at USC. Worked as a Software Engineer at YouTube, Google and Waymo. Was a Senior Software Engineer at Aurora.
Gavin Nachbar
(CEO)Majored in Mathematical Economics at Colorado College, and worked as Sales Strategy & Operations Lead at Dropbox. Was Head of Sales & BizOps at Premise Data, and Head of Operations Strategy at Waymo.
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