Founding Engineer

Tally HQ•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As Founding Full-stack Engineer at Tally, you’ll play a crucial role in building the initial product experience and APIs, agentic systems, and internal tools to transform a massive tax and financial advisory services industry. We’re well funded by top investors and have years of runway. As a Founding Engineer, you will: Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member Design, develop, test, and support features for our web and backend applications Architect and build cutting-edge AI document extraction and agentic systems Build internal tooling for tax advisor and client collaboration Take ownership of projects from concept to production Work with the latest large language models and cutting edge AI Collaborate directly with clients (SMBs), platform partners, and tax advisors Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Tailwind, React, PostgreSQL, Supabase, OpenAI, Anthropic, Reducto.

Requirements

Customer and product obsessed
Capable of growing into a leadership position and running an engineering team
Have 2+ years of startup engineering experience; studied CS/AI or have equivalent experience
Have built and shipped products to end users from 0 to 1
Are fast at 0 to 1, but also thoughtful about how your technical decisions will scale over time
Sweat the details (no problem is too small)

Nice To Haves

Excited about solving unsolved problems

Responsibilities

Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member
Design, develop, test, and support features for our web and backend applications
Architect and build cutting-edge AI document extraction and agentic systems
Build internal tooling for tax advisor and client collaboration
Take ownership of projects from concept to production
Work with the latest large language models and cutting edge AI
Collaborate directly with clients (SMBs), platform partners, and tax advisors