Software Engineer, Platform

Numeral; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k)

Relocation assistance to SF/NYC

Lunch and snacks in office

Team offsites

Ownership culture

Job summary

Numeral seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to build services, APIs, and developer interfaces powering tax automation. You’ll own projects from design to production, shaping reliability and scalability for customers and partners.

You’ll work across infrastructure, public API, MCP server, and billing/ERP integrations, with a strong emphasis on observability, performance, and deployment automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend software.
• Strong backend skills with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis.
• Experience building APIs, integrations, or data pipelines.
• Practical experience with AWS and containerized workloads (ECS, Kubernetes).
• Understanding distributed systems, retries and idempotency.
• Experience with logs, metrics, and tracing for production reliability.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Ownership and customer focus in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our public API and MCP server for reliability and scale.
• Create integrations with billing platforms and ERPs for data sync.
• Improve infrastructure to support APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines.
• Own projects end to end from design to rollout and operation.
• Improve observability and incident response to prevent repeats.
• Automate deployment and infra using IaC, CI/CD, and containers.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship capabilities reliably.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability

Ownership

Tools

ECS

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring tools

Job description

About Numeral:

At Numeral, we're building the future of tax by bringing together AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance.

We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution. Today, we serve more than 3,500 global businesses, including companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza. We’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, more than tripled our revenue every year, and expanded into new industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale.

Numeral has raised over $157M from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, and many others.

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to build the services, infrastructure, and developer interfaces that power Numeral.

Our platform team works across infrastructure, our public API, our MCP server, and integrations with billing platforms and ERPs. You’ll help make our systems more reliable and scalable while building new ways for customers and partners to connect with Numeral.

This is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership. You’ll take projects from design through production, contribute to architecture decisions, and work closely with product and engineering teams to make tax automation work reliably for our customers.

What you’ll do:

• Build and evolve our public API and MCP server, making it easy for customers, developers, and AI tools to work with Numeral.

• Build integrations with billing platforms and ERPs, handling data synchronization, workflow automation, and the real-world complexity of financial data.

• Improve the infrastructure behind our platform, supporting reliable APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines as transaction volumes grow.

• Own projects end to end, including technical design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.

• Improve observability, performance, and incident response so we can identify problems quickly and prevent repeat issues.

• Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and container tooling.

• Partner with product and engineering teams to ship new capabilities while keeping our systems dependable and maintainable.

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend software or platform systems in production.

• Strong backend engineering skills, with experience in Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or comparable technologies.

• Experience building APIs, integrations, or data pipelines, with attention to correctness, error handling, and maintainability.

• Practical experience with AWS or another cloud platform and containerized workloads using ECS, Kubernetes, or similar tools.

• An understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including retries, idempotency, queues, and failure recovery.

• Experience using logs, metrics, and tracing to debug production issues and improve system reliability.

• The ability to work through ambiguity, make pragmatic technical decisions, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

• Ownership and customer focus: you follow through, care about how your work performs in production, and connect technical decisions to customer needs.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with payments, tax, accounting, or other systems where financial data needs to be accurate and auditable.

• Experience integrating with billing platforms or ERPs.

• Experience building public APIs, developer tooling, or MCP servers.

• A background in infrastructure or platform engineering, including Terraform, CI/CD, or observability tooling.

• Experience with event-driven systems or evolving a growing application’s architecture.

Location:

• This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our SF or NY office) or remote

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity - you'll share directly in the company's success

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App

• 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security

• Relocation assistance to NYC or SF (if needed)

• Lunch and snacks when you're in the office

• Regular team offsites and company events as we grow

• A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it!