Our story:
Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.
Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix, Steuerbot and TaxScouts, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016.
Your challenge:
As an Engineer on the New User Experience team, you'll have a direct impact on delivering high-quality, scalable user-facing features. You’ll be involved in crafting testing strategies and ensuring performant user experiences within a cross-functional team setup.Beyond your technical contributions, you'll play a key role in coaching Engineers on best practices and advocating for a strong technical culture across the company’s teams, ensuring our features are designed to scale and meet the highest standards of quality.
Your team:
The New User Experience team focuses on creating a seamless and easy-to-use mobile and web product for first-time DIY tax filers. Our goal is to make the tax experience simple and stress-free by addressing key customer needs throughout the tax filing journey.
We believe in Internal Open Source because it cultivates a strong spirit of collaboration and iterative development while maintaining a high standard of quality. This way of working is made possible by using the universal language JavaScript, specifically using, React, React Native and NodeJS. Everything on our backend runs in Docker—orchestrated by Kubernetes and powered by Google Cloud Platform.
We’re committed to fostering a culture of accountability and ownership. We believe that the best solutions come from team work and collaboration, where unique skills and experiences of our diverse team come together. We live our development values by learning from one another through internal meetups, hackathons, and close collaboration. Our teams are free to choose how they work internally, and what tools they use to accomplish their tasks and most importantly have fun along the way.
Your responsibilities:
Collaborating with product management to work towards achieving the company’s and team’s goals.
Contribute to technical direction and strategy to further the long-term product vision.
Work on unblocking unique frontend challenges our product teams are facing to improve development speed and the user experience.
Create a great developer experience through good tools and practices that empower seamless delivery.
Be part of cross-functional teams, working closely with other platform and product teams.
Be involved in key product decisions and work closely with the whole team to create intuitive and reliable apps.
Mentor other engineers and support an environment that values development, growth, and a safe environment to raise challenges.
Your profile:
+5 years experience with JavaScript (React or other modern JS frameworks)
Experience building solid scalable services and well structured front-end applications
Experience with integrating with diverse APIs
Passionate about writing maintainable and elegant code.
Been working with Git, GitHub/Gitlab, and CI/CD.
A pragmatic person with a strong positive attitude.
Somebody who can work autonomously and overcome obstacles proactively.
Demonstrate curiosity and passion to continue learning.
Familiarity with backend concepts and technologies is a plus (authentication systems, databases, cloud)
Why Taxfix?
A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.
Holistic wellbeing with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and rollover as flexibly as you like.
Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.
Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it.
30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.
Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.
Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.
Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture below:
At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves.
Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyways. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't previously considered.
