Backend Engineer, Fonoa
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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 have a strong sense of ownership, care about what you build, and build the right thing that serves your customers
- 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 comfortable scaling and operating large-scale microservices in high-growth environments
- You are proficient in a couple of languages. Most of our current codebase is in Go and node.js with Typescript, but we are not married to any tools; we see them as a means to an end
- You like to keep your house tidy and clean, and you just can't leave code not covered with a test. Or a feature undelivered. Or dead code rotting in production
- You like to use data over opinions to make decisions. And are okay with finding the data yourself when it’s missing
- You value simplicity over complex solutions and always look for novel ways of simplifying the system. You build software without an ego but feel pride and joy seeing your work in production
- You prefer to improve the system as a whole and are not fixated on improving local optimums that may not impact the bottleneck
What the job involves
- 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
- Learn about how painful it is for large-scale companies to handle tax manually and understand how our technology is changing the status quo
- Own what you build, with the ability to decide how to build it and the responsibility of operating it in the production environment
- Build meaningful products using modern technologies (REST, GRPC, Microservices, etc.) that our customers use and depend on for everyday business (finance, operation, tax and developer teams)
- Record and collate Terabytes of data from all these operations for long-term storage and future insight
- Continuously feed the learnings and observations of operating the system back into our products
- Collaborate with the product team to define the future of our products and deliver value with every release
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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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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