Senior Backend Developer, Tax Optimization Expert

3 weeks ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Grid Full time

At Grid, we're revolutionizing the financial system to favor those with less money. As a Senior Backend Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in building our PayBoost product, enabling users to optimize their taxes effortlessly.

About Us

We're a fast-growing team deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. Our mission is to level the playing field by creating financial products that help users better manage their financial future.

The Role

You'll work closely with product, engineering, and business leaders to design and develop our PayBoost 2.0 end-to-end, tackling complex challenges related to payroll data acquisition, income forecasting, and tax calculation.

The Team

We prioritize serving our users above all else while building a robust business. Our team members experience high levels of autonomy and ownership, and we value curiosity, learning, and growth.

The Tech Stack

Our backend tech stack is built on GCP, Go, protobufs, BigQuery, and MySQL. We've invested heavily in data warehousing, streaming analytics infrastructure, and offline data cleanliness, positioning us for efficient and powerful data science.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Backend Product Development: You'll build domain models, business logic, and API integrations that make our tax optimization product seamless.
  • Payroll Data Acquisition: You'll implement and manage our payroll data acquisition system, integrating with payroll processors to acquire and normalize payroll data.
  • Data Normalization: You'll simplify payroll data across multiple sources, integrating it into our proprietary tax return forecasting model.
  • Deployment & Iteration: We practice a dynamic, data-driven approach to product development, empowering you to maximize our impact on user's take-home pay while keeping them informed and comfortable during the process.
  • Shipping to Production: You'll have access to a rapid CI/CD process, enabling you to ship to production daily.
About You
  • Backend Software Engineer: 4+ years of experience writing backend software, ideally in both Go (golang) and JavaScript/TypeScript (node.js).
  • Experience with Web Technologies: End-to-end understanding of web browser technologies.
  • Autonomy and Initiative: Ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and showcase a proactive approach to identifying key leverage points for data products.
  • Curiosity and Optimism: People who constantly ask why things work the way they do and who have the will to change them.
  • Self-Starter: Confidence to prioritize work and deliver demonstrable results on a tight cadence.
  • Domain Knowledge: Demonstrated experience or understanding of web scrapers, data acquisition, and normalization.
  • Experience with Data Acquisition: Proven experience in screen scraping, crawling, data normalization, and API integration.

$160,000 - $180,000 per year



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