UK Senior Software Engineer

About us

Gelt is the first US focused end-to-end tax platform that proactively analyzes and structures your finances so you owe less at tax time. With expert tax strategies and always-on monitoring, Gelt’s technology works year round to provide tax-optimized recommendations for all your financial decisions. Gelt’s best-in-class tax analysis can save thousands compared to returns filed by traditional CPAs - all in a seamless, easy-to-use platform that empowers you to make the right decisions for your financial goals. With Gelt, you can stop preparing for April 15th - and start planning for your future.

You will:

• Design, develop, and deploy tax automation & optimization services
• Be a critical part of our R&D team
• Implement and ensure the correctness of our advanced tax models
• Collaborate with stakeholders to produce and deliver a premium and optimum product
• Own features end-to-end, thinking through everything from user experience, data models, scalability, operability and ongoing metrics
• Drive technical excellence, high product quality, innovation, and timely delivery in an agile, production critical environment
• Mentor junior team members to support and develop their skills

Our stack:

• Backend: NestJS / NodeJS / Typescript
• Frontend: Vue 3 / Typescript
• Cloud: AWS
• DB: PostgreSQL / MongoDB
• Utilities: Rush (monorepo) / Github
• Tasks & Knowledge-base: Notion / Linear
• Communication: Slack / Zoom / Around

We are looking for someone who has:

• 5+ years of experience in hands-on development of production systems
• Strong production-level experience working with Typescript / Javascript / NodeJS
• Capability to work full-stack, but leans more towards backend
• Production-level experience working with AWS (or other cloud providers) to build, deploy, host and run services
• Experience in front-end frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular
• Familiarity with data engineering, relational, and NoSQL databases
• The ability to reason and communicate your opinions, while also being a team player and accepting others' approaches
• Clean coding skills with readable, simple, and maintainable code. You recognize bad code and search for better solutions.
• The ability to grasp large & complex systems and their inner workings.
• Experience in software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, immutability, etc)
• Full professional English proficiency (spoken and written)

We appreciate people who are:

• Passionate about what they do
• Fast & creative thinkers & doers
• Friendly and approachable (good sense of humor is a must)
• Clear communicators at technical and non-technical levels