Software Engineer

Caribou; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking tax technology firm in Greater London is seeking an experienced software engineer to innovate and drive new features in its tax platform. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of production coding experience in both frontend and backend, including React and Golang. Responsibilities involve working with teams to develop customer-facing applications and optimize backend processes. This role offers a competitive salary within the £70k-£80k range and extensive benefits including health insurance and pension support.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous EMI options

100% book subsidy

Pension

Health Insurance

Custom WFH equipment setup

Qualifications

• 2 years writing production-ready code for frontend and backend.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Discuss requirements with tax team to design new features.
• Design, develop, and maintain customer-facing app and internal tools.
• Drive architectural decisions and optimize efficiency across tech stack.
• Proactively raise customer experience issues and deploy quick fixes.

Skills

React (Typescript)

Golang

SQL (Postgres)

Docker

CI / CD

Cloud services (Google Cloud, AWS)

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Vercel

Postgres

Google Cloud

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. Were 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

Were looking for an experienced software engineer with a passion for solving real-world problems and driving innovation in a start-up environment.

Youre a clear communicator who thinks from first principles and enjoys working in new and creative ways. You value speed accuracy and meaningful impact and youve made significant contributions in your previous roles. Youre confident working independently but know when to collaborate to keep projects moving.

Youve worked directly with users to shape technical requirements and care deeply about delivering a great customer experience. Staying up to date with tech trends excites you and youre eager to implement simple effective solutions that make a this role youll work closely with our CTO and Principal Designer to turn ideas into reality and help shape the future of the company.

In this role you will

• Discuss requirements directly with our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and everything in between.
• Design develop and maintain our customer-facing app and internal back-office tool.
• Drive architectural decisions and optimise efficiency across the tech stack.
• Keep a keen eye on the customer experience to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.

Ship new features and fixes quickly.

Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a culture of excellence

Requirements for the role

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

Bonus points

• Startup experience
• Experience with Python web services (e.g. FastAPI Django).
• Data engineering experience using PyData stack technologies (e.g. NumPy Pandas etc.)
• Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs RAGs utilising embeddings.

Technology

• Frontend : Typescript Vercel
• Backend : Go Postgres Google Cloud
• Services : GitHub Sentry Stytch OpenAI

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

• Competitive salary
• Generous EMI options
• 100% book subsidy
• Pension
• Health Insurance
• Custom WFH equipment setup

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type

Full-Time

Department / Functional Area

Engineering

Experience

years

Vacancy

1

Monthly Salary Salary

70 - 80