Sales tax in the US is exceedingly complex. It's simply out of scope for most companies to tackle without using a specialized sales tax vendor. To properly create a model of just US states' rules, you need to take into account dozens of factors like product type, exemptions, various address types, fulfillment info, and more.
You can get to a basic level of compliance fairly easily with state- and customer-based rates in select circumstances. But unless you dig deep, you will get things wrong, and you will only know about it when you get a potentially expensive audit years later.
Context: CTO of [Taxwire](https://taxwire.co), writing software for sales tax.
Taxwire is solving a frustrating problem that every business has to deal with: sales tax. If you haven’t dealt with the problem firsthand: the US alone has over 10,000 legal jurisdictions, each with their own set of rules locked up in outdated government websites and PDFs. Our job is to understand these rules, understand company data, match them together, and build services to automate all the tedious work. We’re using experts, automation, and ML to do this better than it has ever been done.
We have raised a large initial funding round from institutional investors in Ramp, Expensify, and more, and we are hiring our first two engineers. We care deeply about intentionality around remote, async, and writing-first culture, having led fully remote teams and orgs at Series B companies.
This is a great role for someone who wants to work on a seriously painful problem with massive TAM, and someone who loves reverse engineering, data-driven “expert + LLM” systems, and who wants a core role in building a team and company from the ground up.
On Deck is on a mission to build a modern education institution for the future of work. Today, On Deck has become the place top talent and ambitious builders go to accelerate their ideas and careers, empowered by a world-class community of their peers. Our customers f'ing LOVE us - nearly one in three of our all-time customers have added On Deck to their Twitter bios and/or LinkedIn.
On Deck has just one goal when building product for our community - helping them achieve their personal and professional goals. The goal of our product is to match and connect people with the answers, information, resources, and people to realize their potential.
Day to day:
- The culture is fantastic - one of experimentation, rolling with new ideas, positive sum, ambitious, and service mindset.
- The leadership is stellar - our CTO was previously CTO at Product Hunt and Head of Remote at AngelList.
- We are ~10 engineers spread across the globe, and growing extremely quickly. Many of our engineers were previous entrepreneurs themselves.
- Our customers are incredible people. I feel lucky every day to build for them.
Positions: Senior engineers (Fullstack, ML, DevOps), and lots more. We are also looking for those interested in engineering community & education to design & lead our upcoming Engineering Fellowship.
We work with: TypeScript, Postgres, Next.js, Express
It is much nicer in general, but what about when used with Codespaces?
My old MBP bricked the other day, and while I wait for a new laptop I’m going to use a random cheap computer to do my dev work. I love the idea of having a full fledged cloud IDE with all the bells and whistles already set up for me. This helps enable that!
You can get to a basic level of compliance fairly easily with state- and customer-based rates in select circumstances. But unless you dig deep, you will get things wrong, and you will only know about it when you get a potentially expensive audit years later.
Context: CTO of [Taxwire](https://taxwire.co), writing software for sales tax.