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TaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and is trusted by more than 15,000 businesses. Our mission is is to make eCommerce easier for everyone.





OUR CORE VALUES





We do the right thing for our customers.

We're a team, built on trust.

We're proud to be remote.

We're in control of our own destiny.





TaxJar ’s remote-only team of 60 people is growing quickly. We have an immediate opening for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer. We want you to join our Product Engineering team and help us build a product our customers love. The Product Engineering team at TaxJar is solving complex problems on a daily basis, supporting our growing customer base and creating new solutions in a complex domain. We deal with large datasets, complex frequently-changing sales tax rules, and automating complex processes for thousands of business customers





*This is a full-time remote position available to folks located in the US.





AS A RAILS ENGINEER ON THE PLATFORM TEAM YOU WILL





Develop performant, accurate, and testable reports that our more than 15k customers relay on every day

Work with our Research Team to keep reports up to date in response to changing tax laws

Investigate and resolve complex issues for customers and other teams

Write strong Ruby on Rails code daily

Be challenged to solve new problems

Review and test your teammates pull requests

Contribute to and maintain our existing Rspec test suites

Maintain and update our core SaaS business logic

Build out apps and services for managing thousands of sales tax rules

Work with Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, and more

Help monitor and support 24/7 Rails applications and services





REQUIREMENTS





2-5 years production experience with Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq

Ability to write clear and accurate tests using RSpec/Capybara

Write code that is maintainable and readable by your team

Be accountable for the code you deliver to production

Manage development tasks from assignment through to production

Agile, humble, trustworthy, and a team player

Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced and demanding environment

Passion for building simple and intuitive solutions for complex problems in ecommerce

Prior SaaS development, API development or similar app dev experience

Excel at communicating with the team remotely (chat, video, email, etc)





YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT FOR OUR TEAM IF YOU





Only want to work remotely

Are a PRO at communicating and collaboration

Highly value working with people you like and respect

Are accountable

Are confident in your skills and a solid team player (We’re peers here, no egos please) but also comfortable working asynchronously

Hungry to play an impactful role and not afraid to fail





We’re a happy team and we all really love what we do. We've created a space where high-achievers can succeed, but are also safe to fail. We're profitable and focused on growing TaxJar sustainably. We're always learning how to make TaxJar the best place to work for all of us, and not just another tech startup. We’re always looking for an amazing new teammates to come share in the excitement of solving real-world problems with technology.





BENEFITS





Excellent health, vision and dental benefits

Flexible vacation policy

401K Plan

$1,000 in professional development credit

Home office stipend

Equity in a profitable company

2x year all-company in person retreats (fully paid for by us of course)

Brand new Macbook computer

Mandatory Birthday holiday!

12 week paid maternity/ 6 week paid paternity leave

Monthly perks reimbursement for things like Netflix, Amazon Prime, your gym membership, home internet and more.





We offer all of our employees amazing benefits. Visit www.TaxJar.com/jobs for a full list of our benefits and to learn more about how we work and what we stand for.





If you're not the perfect fit for this position, but you know someone who is, we'll pay you $1,000 if you refer us to the person we hire.



