Backend Engineer
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TaxwireFintech, Tax Compliance
Remote-first (Americas or Europe).Full-TimeSenior
Salary$175K - $225K+ Base
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5–10+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLFastAPIPostgresPandasData modeling
Requirements
- 5–10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
- Strong experience designing systems, services, and data models in complex domains.
- Proficiency in our backend stack: Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, pandas, duckdb), Postgres, SQL.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Strong attention to detail for accuracy and correctness.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Ability to lead projects, make architectural calls, and execute independently.
- Experience working on automation-heavy systems, developer tools, or regulated workflows is a bonus.
- Experience with LLMs, scripting, or browser automation tools like Playwright is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core backend services - including data modeling, compliance logic, and internal platforms that support tax automation at scale.
- Build scalable systems to monitor, calculate, and apply transaction taxes across a wide range of jurisdictions and industries.
- Develop and maintain our domain model for tax rules, jurisdictions, thresholds, and impositions.
- Build automation pipelines for filings, payments, and customer workflows.
- Use browser automation, scripting, and task queues to reduce manual work across compliance processes.
- Leverage LLMs and programmatic tools to enhance tax research, rule extraction, and error handling.
- Collaborate across engineering, tax, and product teams to turn complex policy into scalable software systems.
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