Software Engineer, Platform

Posted Yesterday
3 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
180K-300K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Productivity • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Numeral:

At Numeral, we're building the future of tax by bringing together AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance.

We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution. Today, we serve more than 3,500 global businesses, including companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza. We’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, more than tripled our revenue every year, and expanded into new industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale.

Numeral has raised over $157M from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, and many others.

 
About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to build the services, infrastructure, and developer interfaces that power Numeral.

Our platform team works across infrastructure, our public API, our MCP server, and integrations with billing platforms and ERPs. You’ll help make our systems more reliable and scalable while building new ways for customers and partners to connect with Numeral.

This is a hands-on role with meaningful ownership. You’ll take projects from design through production, contribute to architecture decisions, and work closely with product and engineering teams to make tax automation work reliably for our customers.

What you’ll do:
  • Build and evolve our public API and MCP server, making it easy for customers, developers, and AI tools to work with Numeral.

  • Build integrations with billing platforms and ERPs, handling data synchronization, workflow automation, and the real-world complexity of financial data.

  • Improve the infrastructure behind our platform, supporting reliable APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines as transaction volumes grow.

  • Own projects end to end, including technical design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.

  • Improve observability, performance, and incident response so we can identify problems quickly and prevent repeat issues.

  • Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and container tooling.

  • Partner with product and engineering teams to ship new capabilities while keeping our systems dependable and maintainable.

 
What you’ll bring:
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend software or platform systems in production.

  • Strong backend engineering skills, with experience in Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis, or comparable technologies.

  • Experience building APIs, integrations, or data pipelines, with attention to correctness, error handling, and maintainability.

  • Practical experience with AWS or another cloud platform and containerized workloads using ECS, Kubernetes, or similar tools.

  • An understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including retries, idempotency, queues, and failure recovery.

  • Experience using logs, metrics, and tracing to debug production issues and improve system reliability.

  • The ability to work through ambiguity, make pragmatic technical decisions, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

  • Ownership and customer focus: you follow through, care about how your work performs in production, and connect technical decisions to customer needs.

Nice to haves:
  • Experience with payments, tax, accounting, or other systems where financial data needs to be accurate and auditable.

  • Experience integrating with billing platforms or ERPs.

  • Experience building public APIs, developer tooling, or MCP servers.

  • A background in infrastructure or platform engineering, including Terraform, CI/CD, or observability tooling.

  • Experience with event-driven systems or evolving a growing application’s architecture.

Location:
  • This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our SF or NY office) or remote

What we offer:
  • Competitive salary and equity - you'll share directly in the company's success

  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App

  • 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security

  • Relocation assistance to NYC or SF (if needed)

  • Lunch and snacks when you're in the office

  • Regular team offsites and company events as we grow

  • A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it!

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend software or platform systems in production
  • Strong backend engineering skills with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, or comparable technologies
  • Experience building APIs, integrations, or data pipelines
  • Practical experience with AWS or another cloud platform
  • Experience with containerized workloads using ECS, Kubernetes, or similar tools
  • Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including retries, idempotency, queues, and failure recovery
  • Experience using logs, metrics, and tracing to debug production issues and improve reliability
  • Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions and communicate tradeoffs clearly
  • Experience with payments, tax, accounting, or other auditable financial-data systems
  • Experience integrating with billing platforms or ERPs
  • Experience building public APIs, developer tooling, or MCP servers
  • Infrastructure or platform engineering background, including Terraform, CI/CD, or observability tooling
  • Experience with event-driven systems or evolving a growing application’s architecture
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
85 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Numeral is transforming how taxes get done. Digital businesses are currently bogged down by a painful web of regulations across 47 states and 50+ countries. We’re eliminating this burden so teams can focus on their core mission.

Similar Jobs

Huntress Logo Huntress

Staff Software Engineer

Information Technology • Cybersecurity
Easy Apply
Remote
United States of America
780 Employees
200K-220K Annually

Hex Logo Hex

Staff Software Engineer

Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
Remote or Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
160 Employees
221K-349K Annually

Hex Logo Hex

Software Engineer

Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
Remote or Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
160 Employees
199K-295K Annually

Worth Logo Worth

Senior Software Engineer

Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
In-Office or Remote
5 Locations
84 Employees

Similar Companies Hiring

Onshore Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
New York, New York
60 Employees
Revel Thumbnail
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software
Marina Del Rey, California
60 Employees
Blee Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Software
New York, New York
30 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account