Senior Software Engineer

Caribou; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tax platform is seeking a proactive full-stack developer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the CTO and domain experts to transform business needs into technical requirements. With a focus on both frontend and backend development, you will design and maintain applications that enhance customer experience while driving architectural decisions. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a company that is revolutionizing international tax compliance, making it accessible for businesses of all sizes. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to innovate, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous EMI options

100% book subsidy

Pension

Health Insurance

Custom WFH equipment setup

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on frontend and backend.
• Strong analytical skills and experience in problem-solving in a tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-stack monorepo and maintain engineering team velocity.
• Design and develop customer-facing apps and internal tools.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Frontend Development

Backend Development

SQL (Postgres)

Golang

React (Typescript)

Cloud Services Management

Tools

Docker

Google Cloud

AWS

GitHub

Sentry

OpenAI

Encore.dev

Next.js

Vercel

Job description

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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

We're looking for a resourceful and proactive individual to join our talent dense team. In this role, you'll work closely with our CTO and domain experts to turn business needs into clear technical requirements.

You'll bring excellent communication skills, a curiosity to learn, and the ability to think from first principles. You've worked directly with users before and know how to uncover what's needed. You're confident working independently but also know when to collaborate to keep things moving.

In this role, you will

1. Fully own our full-stack monorepo to ensure that the engineering team can maintain velocity while scaling.
2. Design, develop and maintain our customer-facing app and internal backoffice tool.
3. Discuss requirements directly with our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and everything in between.
4. Drive architectural decisions and optimise efficiency across the tech stack.
5. Collaborate with other engineers as well as non-technical colleagues.
6. Keep a keen eye on the customer experience to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.
7. Ship new features and fixes quickly.
8. Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a culture of excellence.

Requirements for the role

1. Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
2. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
3. 5+ years writing production-ready code for frontend as well as backend.
4. React (Typescript) + Golang
5. 5+ years writing SQL (Postgres) for query optimisation, migrations and analysis.
6. Experience with serverless applications, containerisation (e.g. Docker) and CI/CD.
7. Experience in managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.

Bonus points

1. Startup experience.
2. Data science / analyst experience - turning big data into meaningful insights.
3. Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs, RAGs utilising embeddings.

Technology

1. Frontend: Typescript, Next.js, Vercel
2. Backend: Go, Postgres, Encore.dev, Google Cloud
3. Services: GitHub, Sentry, Stytch, OpenAI

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

1. Competitive salary
2. Generous EMI options
3. 100% book subsidy
4. Pension
5. Health Insurance
6. Custom WFH equipment setup