Automation Engineer Working Student, Taxfix
1-2 days a week in office
Digital tax solutions
Be an early applicant
Digital tax solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
1-2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Student Status: Currently enrolled in a university degree program in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- Availability: Able to work 15–20 hours per week during the semester (with potential for more hours during semester breaks)
- Coding Foundations: Good fundamental knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript)
- Technical Curiosity: Academic knowledge of or first hands-on experience working with APIs, SQL, and data manipulation
- Tooling Interest: An interest in learning low-code platforms (e.g., n8n, Zapier) and CI/CD concepts (like GitHub Actions)
- Problem Solver: A product mindset—you care about user experience and want to see how your code impacts real business outcomes
- Language: Excellent communication skills in English; German is a plus
What the job involves
- The Corporate IT team is evolving from service delivery to value creation
- As our Working Student Automation Engineer, you'll assist in building the systems, automations, and integrations that enable 400+ employees across Germany, Spain, and the UK to work more effectively
- You'll be the technical support force that helps turn operational friction into elegant solutions
- You'll collaborate with teams across People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Business Partnering, and Insights to understand their pain points and help deliver measurable outcomes
- With guidance from senior team members, you'll leverage our IT platform and AI tooling stack to create solutions that drive efficiency
- Reporting to the Director of IT (and working closely with our engineering team), you'll be part of a focused 6-person team where platform engineers build the infrastructure, support engineers help employees, and you help build the value
- This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on engineering experience and directly impact how efficiently our organisation operates
- Assist in building internal tools: Help design and build internal products, workflows, and integrations that solve real business problems for teams across the organisation
- Develop automations: Write scripts and use APIs to build integrations between our SaaS tools, helping to eliminate manual work
- Write code and queries: Support system designs by writing robust SQL queries, custom scripts, and helping implement logic in low-code platforms
- Collaborate and learn: Partner with stakeholders in People Operations and Talent Acquisition to understand their needs and assist in delivering technical solutions
- Explore AI tooling: Support initiatives to integrate AI technologies into internal processes to improve team productivity
- Document your work: Create clear documentation to help stakeholders effectively use the systems you help build
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: $326.5m
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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