Forward Deployed Engineer

Founded by CPAs, tax attorneys, and engineers, Taxbit is the leading innovator automating global tax reporting for the digital economy. Taxbit's AI-enabled platform streamlines compliance related to digital assets, payments, and other financial transactions. Its unique combination of deep subject matter expertise and AI-forward technology have made it a fast-growing disruptor trusted by the world's leading fintechs, marketplaces, digital asset players, Big 4 accounting firms, traditional enterprises, and government agencies. Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs, Taxbit's team is located across offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Salt Lake City, London, Madrid, and Singapore.

### Client-Facing Engineering (Pre-Sales & Post-Sales) - Act as the trusted technical advisor to our most strategic clients, from individual developers to CTOs. - Provide expert technical guidance to our sales team and potential clients during the pre-sales cycle to help design solutions and close deals. - Develop, own, and maintain our suite of high-quality demos and technical documentation for use in pre- and post-sales client engagements. - Become a deep expert on our client integration process, mastering both backend data integration challenges and frontend application integrations. - Lead the post-sales technical integration, owning client problems end-to-end and building modern solutions and proofs-of-concept for complex, client-facing problems. ### Core Software Engineering - Be the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering, synthesizing complex field-level challenges and opportunities into actionable product roadmap initiatives. - Contribute directly to the core Taxbit platform by building modern, scalable solutions to complex platform-level problems, including new features and enhanced integration capabilities. - Write well-designed, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code for both client-facing tools and the core Taxbit platform. - Partner with designers, product managers, sales, and other engineers to solve the right problems for customers and the platform. - Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, distribute knowledge, and help team velocity.

### Professional Qualifications - Fluent in English; native fluency in a main European language; preferred business-level proficiency in 1-2 additional languages. - 5+ years of professional programming experience building cloud applications and services. - Demonstrated expertise as an API expert: building, consuming, and documenting scalable, resilient APIs and services. - Proven full-stack experience, with deep comfort across both modern web frontends and backend distributed systems. - Proven experience in a client-facing role, interfacing directly with external technical teams and business stakeholders. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Strong ability to set goals, manage competing priorities, and work autonomously in a fast-paced environment. - Passionate about code quality, continuous delivery, automated testing, and incident response. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. ### Technical Qualifications - Strong coding skills required in Typescript, NodeJS, and React, with experience in Python being a plus. - Experience with a variety of cloud storage solutions (SQL, Blob, Document, Search). - Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, DataDog, and GitHub CI/CD. - Experience with big data technologies like Spark/Iceberg/Hive/Kafka/Presto etc. is a plus. - Familiarity and interest in the emerging and evolving Web3 space. - Demonstrated skill in using AI tools to accelerate software development and increase productivity.

### Personal Characteristics - Finds energy in talking to clients, understanding their needs, and designing solutions. - Ability to work in an agile environment and challenge yourself and your team to improve their ways of working. - A strong sense of teamwork and a passion for mentorship. - Ability and willingness to travel internationally a few times per year to regions such as EMEA and APAC. Maintains flexible hours to collaborate with clients across global time zones.

TaxBit is a tax and accounting software platform that transforms cryptocurrency transaction data into accurate tax reports and regulatory filings across 70+ jurisdictions. Founded by CPAs, tax attorneys, and software developers, the company provides API-powered compliance solutions for individuals, enterprises, and governments.