Senior Software Architect

About Taxfix

We want tax issues to be more understandable. That’s why we founded Taxfix. Taxfix should support you in the preparation of your tax return. Every taxpayer should receive his maximum tax refund!

With our app we guide you step by step through your tax return. Instructions and informative articles offer you the best help to save money. We make taxing easier for you!

Position

You will be the Technical lead for our talented architects who work across multidisciplinary product teams, leading with passion and driving quality and innovation across the team. You will be an integral part of the Technical strategy here at Taxfix, defining business requirements for the Engineering teams and driving end to end technical solutions.  Most of the solutions we build often require backend, mobile, and web components and we have implemented, at the core of our stack, a tax expert system, which is used by domain experts to define the logic and the data models for heterogeneous tax cases and countries. This will be your home, digging deep into the world of modelling taxes using graph data structures and rule based engines.

Your responsibilities
Participating in the definition of technical strategy for Taxfix, alongside our CTO
Providing technical leadership for the Architecture Team, ensuring alignment with our architecture principles and technical strategy across all components
Scoping, defining and designing solution offerings, driving end-to-end technical solutions and taking key architectural decisions that will affect the entire Taxfix system
Managing cross-team initiatives with DevOps and Security Teams to ensure a unified approach with Technical solution for the business
Scoping, defining and designing solution offerings; driving end-to-end technical solutions
Managing the co-operation and contribution of external partners, and their delivery and integration with Taxfix

Your qualification

• An extensive background in software development, with 3+ years of experience as a Software Architect or a Lead Software Architect
• A passion for high quality and elegant code
• Previous experience with Web and Mobile product development
• Previous experience with Microservices
• Good understanding of distributed systems and requirements for high availability.
• Exceptional communication skills teamed with the confidence and presence to work with any business specialism to support the company vision and mission

Bonus Points

• A solid understanding of JavaScript
• Previous experience with functional languages (we use Elixir here at Taxfix) Experience and knowledge with Devops
• Contributions to open-source projects.

What we offer

This role also offers:

• Be supported in your personal and professional development by an experienced team.
• Opportunity to take leadership from day one.
• Get relocation and visa support
• A beautiful office located near to Alexanderplatz.