Full-Stack AI Software Engineer, Tax Platform

Nuxt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Instead is building an AI-powered tax platform used by hundreds of accounting firms. You will work across the full stack, delivering features on our customer-facing product and creating internal tooling to empower the engineering team.

This is production AI work with real tax data and deadlines. The stack includes Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind on the frontend; Go, Docker on AWS ECS/Fargate, PostgreSQL on AWS RDS on the backend.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in full-stack development with a strong understanding of web frameworks, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building and shipping production software that real customers depend on.
• High attention to detail. Tax work has consequences, and our code needs to be right.
• Fast learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift quickly.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks, prompt engineering, or AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) is a strong plus.
• Experience with our stack (Vue/Nuxt, Go, AWS, PostgreSQL) is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Ship full-stack product features end to end for our live customer platform.
• Build and integrate AI-powered components including production-level inference and prompt engineering.
• Make key product improvements based on customer feedback and usage analytics.
• Solve critical product bugs across the full stack with high urgency during tax season.
• Create tools and internal platforms that enhance the productivity of Instead's engineering and product teams.
• Partner with US-based product teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture decisions as the team scales.

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud infrastructure

AI/ML frameworks

Fast learner

Tools

Vue/Nuxt

Go

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

Instead is building an AI-powered tax platform used by hundreds of accounting firms. You will work across the full stack, delivering features on our customer-facing product and creating internal tooling to empower the engineering team.

This is production AI work with real tax data and deadlines. The stack includes Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind on the frontend; Go, Docker on AWS ECS/Fargate, PostgreSQL on AWS RDS on the backend.