Senior Software Engineer

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Hiring Company: Deduction.com

One-liner: Deduction.com is building the AI tax accountant for consumers, making expert tax advice, planning, and filing available year-round without the cost or wait of a traditional CPA.

Salary: $180K/yr - $250K/yr

Why Join Us:

• Building one of the most compelling AI consumer fintech products: the first AI tax accountant for everyday consumers.

• $9M funded by top investors and angels from OpenAI, Robinhood, and Rocket Lawyer

• Founded by Sai Dhanak, a serial entrepreneur with 2 prior exits who helped scale Latch from seed to NASDAQ.

• We’re a small, high-ownership team. Engineers here don’t just implement, they define systems, make decisions, and own outcomes end-to-end.

Role Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end—from backend services and data to the user-facing UI

• Design and operate production backend services in TypeScript (Node.js), with pragmatic use of Python where appropriate

• Build polished, usable frontends in TypeScript (React/Next.js)

• Model data and design APIs that keep backend, frontend, and AI workflows clean and composable

• Integrate our agentic AI core (Taylor) and CPA-in-the-loop workflows into reliable product experiences

• Partner with product and operations to turn ambiguous workflows into shipped features customers and CPAs actually use

• Use AI-assisted development as a default—from prototyping to debugging to system design

• Improve reliability, observability, and performance across what you own

• Own architectural decisions within your domain, balancing speed and long-term maintainability

Qualifications

Required

• Proven experience shipping and operating production fullstack systems end-to-end

• Strong across the stack in TypeScript—backend (Node.js) and frontend (React/Next.js); other typed language experience is a plus

• Solid data modeling and system design instincts, plus a real eye for UI/UX

• Ability to go from zero → one → scale with minimal guidance

• Early-stage appetite: you thrive when priorities shift fast and scope isn't always locked—you'd rather ship, experiment, and iterate than wait for a perfect spec

• You actively use AI tools as a core part of your development workflow (not optional)

• You believe the software engineer's job is fundamentally changing—and you lean into that shift

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, tax, or regulated environments a strong plus

• Familiarity with security and compliance considerations (sensitive data, auditability, access controls) a strong plus

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• Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups

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