Product Engineer (Sr/Staff)

Taxwire•New York City, NY

20h

About The Position

Taxwire is building the last global indirect-tax platform finance teams will ever need. We help companies understand their tax exposure, calculate and collect the right amount, automate registrations and filings, and stay compliant as they grow across jurisdictions. Indirect tax is high-stakes, fragmented, and unforgiving. Rules change constantly, vary by product and location, and create real financial risk when companies get them wrong. We hire people with high ownership, strong judgment, and low ego. Everyone at Taxwire is expected to understand the customer, solve messy problems end to end, and build systems that scale. We move quickly because our customers depend on us to get it right. We’ve raised approximately $25 million, serve hundreds of SMB and mid-market companies, and continue to win customers away from legacy providers. We’re proud to have had zero churn to date. If you want to solve a massive, permanent problem alongside experienced tax experts and product builders, Taxwire is the place to do it. We’re looking for a full-stack engineer who cares deeply about winning and solving customer problems. You’ll ship new products end to end and embed in our users’ workflows to automate, streamline, and delight wherever possible.

Requirements

5–10+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time shipping full-stack products on small teams.
Strong command of React and TypeScript.
You've built production apps you're proud of — not just maintained other people's work.
Experience owning features end-to-end, including working with design, defining backend contracts, and shipping to real users.
Good product taste. You don't need to be a designer, but you notice when something is off and you fix it.
Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a rough problem statement — not a polished spec — and turn it into something real.
Willingness to have direct, honest conversations when you disagree with a technical or product direction.

Nice To Haves

Senior engineers with 5-10 years of experience, maybe more.
Former founders. People who’ve built something and either sold it, shut it down, or otherwise moved on. They tend to be high-agency and outcome-oriented.
Future founders. People who haven’t started their thing yet but plan to eventually, and want to see what a winning team looks like before they go do it themselves.
The customer-curious. People obsessed with the customer and the business problems. They want to be on the calls, doing interviews, taking some of the customer-facing work over themselves.
The engineers who do best here become best friends with Marissa.
Builders who want to win. We’re deeply serious about the work, our customers, and doing whatever it takes to win. Engineers who want to see the business succeed first and foremost thrive here.

Responsibilities

Own features end-to-end, from scoping and architecture to shipping and iterating based on real customer feedback.
Build and maintain core product surfaces: the customer dashboard, onboarding flows, monitoring and reporting tools, and the internal tooling our tax ops team depends on daily.
Work with the tax ops team directly to understand where automation breaks down and design solutions that scale without sacrificing accuracy.
Work with our product leader and founders to design, build, and ship new products from end to end.
Contribute to the filing pipeline, calculating liabilities, preparing returns, submitting to state portals (with and without APIs), and handling the edge cases that break naive automation.
Translate complex compliance workflows into UI that's clear, fast, and doesn't require a manual to use.
Participate in architectural decisions, not just execute them. We want your opinion and expect you to push back when something doesn't make sense.
Keep quality high as we move fast. That means tests where they matter, clean interfaces between systems, and code your teammates can reason about six months later.