Product Engineer

Caribou Financial; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Generous EMI options

100% book subsidy

Pension

Health Insurance

Custom WFH equipment setup

Job summary

Caribou Financial in the United Kingdom is seeking a full stack engineer with a strong frontend craft. You will shape how the product looks and feels, working closely with the CTO and tax team to translate complex concepts into clear interfaces.

You'll own end-to-end features from frontend to backend, contribute to a scalable design system, and build data-dense views such as entity graphs and compliance status. A focus on user experience and fast iteration is key.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production web applications, with frontend focus.
• Demonstrable UI craft with attention to spacing, hierarchy, motion, and empty states.
• Experience presenting complex or data-heavy information clearly: dashboards, graphs, tables, workflows, editors.
• Comfortable across the stack, able to write API and migrations behind features.
• Strong SQL (Postgres): ORMs, queries, migrations, and performance awareness.
• Excellent communication: translate CFO/tax needs into a spec.

Responsibilities

• Turn complex tax concepts into interfaces that are obvious at a glance.
• Work with tax team to shape requirements and own features end to end, frontend through backend.
• Own and evolve design system and component library for consistent quality.
• Build data-dense views: entity graphs, intercompany flows, compliance status, documentation.
• Maintain customer experience, raise issues, deploy fixes.
• Ship quickly and set the bar for what 'shipped' means here.

Skills

Frontend

UI Craft

SQL

TypeScript

Next.js

Tailwind

Data Visualization

Communication

API Development

Tools

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

shadcn/ui

Job description

About Caribou

International tax is a rigged system. Tax rules get ever more complicated, compliance gets more expensive, and the Big Four controls the expertise. They charge fees that only giant companies can afford, while smaller businesses are left flying blind.

Caribou is a tax platform designed to make international tax accessible to every global business. We're fixing Transfer Pricing first, where one million businesses are in need, but only ten thousand experts exist.

Our backers include Y Combinator, Accel, Lakestar and angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies in London and San Francisco.

About the Role

Transfer pricing is genuinely hard to understand. Our customers are finance leaders, not tax specialists. They need to see their intercompany structure, understand what the rules require of them, and act on it, without a Big Four partner sitting next to them translating.

Making that legible is the hardest and most valuable product problem we have. It's an information design problem as much as an engineering one: dense, interlinked, jurisdiction-specific data that has to land as something a CFO can look at and immediately act on.

We're looking for a full stack engineer with a real aptitude / spike in frontend and UI. You'll own how our product looks, feels and communicates, working directly with our CTO, our Lead Engineer and our in-house tax team. You'll go all the way down the stack when the feature needs it, but the frontend is where your craft shows.

In this role, you will

• Turn genuinely complex tax concepts into interfaces that are obvious at a glance.

• Work directly with our tax team to shape requirements, then own features end to end, frontend through backend.

• Own and evolve our design system and component library so quality compounds rather than drifts.

• Build the data-dense views at the heart of the product: entity graphs, intercompany flows, compliance status, documentation.

• Keep a keen eye on the customer experience, proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.

• Ship quickly, and set the bar for what "shipped" means here.

Requirements for the role

• 3+ years building production web applications, with the majority of that time in the frontend.

• Demonstrable UI craft. You notice spacing, hierarchy, motion and empty states, and you care when they're wrong. Show us something you've built.

• Experience presenting complex or data-heavy information clearly: dashboards, graphs, tables, workflows, editors.

• Comfortable across the stack. You can write the API and the migration behind your feature rather than waiting for someone else to.

• Strong SQL (Postgres): ORMs, queries, migrations, and knowing why a page is slow.

• Excellent communication. You can talk to a CFO, a tax specialist, understand what they actually mean, and turn it into a spec.

We treat technology as a tool rather than an identity, so we care more about what you've built than which frameworks you've used. That said, our stack is TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind and shadcn/ui on the frontend, and prior experience with those means you'll be productive faster.

Bonus points

• Previously founded a company.

• Startup experience.

• Design tooling literacy (Figma), or a design background.

• Experience with LLM-backed product features: RAG, embeddings, evaluation.

• Go, or a willingness to learn it. It's what most of our backend is written in.

• Data or analytics engineering experience (Python, PyData stack).

Perks & Benefits (for UK-based full-time employees)

• Competitive salary

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Generous EMI options

• 100% book subsidy

• Pension

• Health Insurance

• Custom WFH equipment setup