Senior/Staff Product Engineer [Taxwire]

tl;dr — We’re recruiting an experienced front end or full stack engineer to help us solve global tax compliance. More on us, who we’re looking for, and why you should care below.

Job Title: Founding Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, or Staff Engineer depending on preference and experience level.

Location: Remote-first (Americas or Europe). Optional NYC HQ office available.

Salary range: $175k - $225k+ depending on experience and location. Exceptions on a case-by-case basis and determined relative to open comp standards. See below for our approach.

Other: Company-covered benefits and generation stock options package.

Taxwire is building the last global sales tax platform. We help companies understand tax exposure, automate compliance, and shield their business from risk across every jurisdiction, industry, and edge case from SMBs to enterprise.

Our Mission: To make global transaction tax compliance a commodity for businesses and governments around the world. Sales tax, VAT, tariffs, duties, gross receipts, transfer tax, etc. have become exponentially more complex as digital commerce and regulatory demands grow. Most companies rely on a mix of legacy software, manual processes, and human services to fully manage their global tax burdens. We believe that solving for enterprise-grade tax compliance requires re-building core infrastructure from the ground up: from source tax law to automated calculation, filings, and remittance. The future looks cheaper, easier, and risk-free for tax payers around the world.

Our approach: Taxwire re-built the enterprise-grade tax engine from zero. Our platform can monitor, calculate, file, remit, and explain taxes across the full spectrum of complexity faced by mid-market and enterprise customers. We cover multiple industries, support both US and international taxes, calculate at a rooftop level, automate traditional services, and more.

Why it matters: Customers choose tax platforms based on coverage, trust, ease, and price. Most solutions force trade-offs. Taxwire delivers broad coverage across: industries, jurisdictions, and tax types; rooftop-level accuracy and traceability for audit-proof compliance, fast implementations without bloated service layers, and fair pricing relative to value. We keep our customers compliant and protect them from risk.

Our customers: We serve finance teams at companies like Pulley, Italic, TopoftheMornin Coffee, Pirate Wires and partner with accounting firms like Graphite Financial, Rivet Tax, Integrated CPA, and many more. To date, we’ve had 0 churn and our customers love us.

Our investors: We’ve raised ~$13M from XYZ Ventures, Headline, Vinyl, Recall Capital, J Ventures, Nomo Ventures, Expansion Capital, Siqi Chen (Runway.com CEO), Michael Bock (Column Tax CTO), Joel Newbert (VP of Finance @ Decagon), Justin Mares (Founder @ Kettle & Fire, Perfect Keto, Truemed), Mike Rosengarten (OpenGov co-founder), Erik Torenberg (Village Global, On Deck, a16z), and many others.

Own and lead development of our front-end applications (React + TypeScript), including architecture, performance, and design fidelity.

Work with backend engineers to define clean API interfaces and deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.

Translate complex compliance workflows into clear, elegant UIs — from onboarding flows to monitoring dashboards and filing tools.

Partner with design to rapidly prototype new ideas and ship polished features.

Build and maintain internal tooling and admin interfaces to help our team scale.

Drive consistency, accessibility, and usability across our product surfaces.

Optimize performance across large datasets, charts, and multi-step workflows.

Participate in architectural decisions, planning, and shaping our technical roadmap.

5–8 years of professional engineering experience, ideally with deep front-end expertise (full stack experience is a plus).

Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern front-end tooling. Experience with testing libraries, build tools, and performance optimization.

Experience building polished, production-grade apps with a high bar for UI/UX quality.

A strong eye for product design. You don’t need to be a designer, but you care about how things look and feel.

Experience working closely with designers and backend engineers to ship full product surfaces.

Ability to balance speed and quality — you ship quickly without sacrificing maintainability.

Bonus: experience working on data-heavy products, internal tooling, or complex B2B workflows.

Bonus: understanding of data visualization, component libraries, or accessibility best practices.

Excellent communication skills. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineers, founders, and non-technical teammates.

You’re a self-starter. Someone who can own projects end-to-end and thrives in ambiguous environments.

You’re known for shipping fast and taking pride in your work.

You love lots of structure and want to be closely managed.

You are not ready to put in the hard work of taking something from 0-1 and then 1 to 10.

Don’t get excited about serving our customers or find this problem space boring.

You hate the idea of talking to a customer.

You lack taste.

Shipping lots of high-quality code, fast… scares you.