Software Engineer

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 charges fees that only giant companies can properly 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 an experienced software engineer with a passion for solving real-world problems and driving innovation in a start-up environment.

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

You’ve 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 you’re eager to implement simple, effective solutions that make a difference. In this role, you’ll 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, Next.js, Vercel
• Backend: Go, Postgres, Encore.dev, 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

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Our interview process is fast. Here’s what you can expect:
15-minute intro call with Juan - CEO
30-minute interview call with Ryan - CTO
45-minute technical interview
60-minute technical task

We’ll make a decision after that and share an offer if you’re successful.