Full-Stack Software Engineer

At Valur, we are on a mission to democratize innovative tax-planning strategies, making them affordable and accessible to everyone. Just like Roman Health and Hims have productized regulated healthcare processes to make them more accessible, we are building a system to streamline the tax planning tools of the ultra-rich to make them affordable and available to everyone.

The proof is in the results: We have scaled quickly to mid-7-figure annual revenue, and we now manage more than $1 billion of assets through direct-to-consumer engagement and partnership with some of the top investment financial firms in the business. On the back of that traction, we have raised around $5 million over several rounds from top early-stage investors, including Box Group, Canaan, BasisSet, Vibe Capital, and notable angels.

What We’ve Built

We’ve built several cutting-edge features, including:

• A state-of-the-art financial planning decisions engine
• Sophisticated tax-planning comparison calculators, with deep quantitative results and beautiful visualizations
• AI agents for customer support and recommendations
• An advanced client onboarding and account management experience

What We’re Building

We’re excited about our upcoming projects, which include:

• Integrating with top financial institutions to help our clients track accounts and optimize their taxes
• Developing a more advanced RAG-based AI recommendation engine
• Creating B2B2C financial advisor-focused client management tools

About the Role

We are looking for a generalist engineer to help get us to hyper-growth mode. Our engineering team’s goal is to build a platform that is accessible to both customers with no experience in complex financial planning and financial advisors who do this for a living. The right candidate for this role will be a mid-career engineer who can partner with the product team to identify problems and solve product, design, and technical challenges. We aim to test new ideas quickly while also further building on the tools that have been working very well so far to build a product that delights our users. We believe in high agency and ownership; we prize proactive team members who see a problem and come to the group with a solution and a plan to implement it.

We are a team of generalists and are looking for someone who is comfortable building across the stack, working with product, design, and operations to understand product requirements and ship a full feature end to end. While fintech experience isn’t required, having an understanding of or enthusiasm to learn complex financial and tax products is a huge plus.

Our ideal candidate will play a crucial role in supporting our existing platform and will have the opportunity to contribute to its growth by enhancing our tools. With our rapid growth and top-tier funding, joining our engineering team means becoming a part of a dynamic and forward-thinking company at the forefront of the industry. Furthermore, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate on ongoing AI projects and provide valuable assistance with infrastructure management and migration.

You will

• Be involved in all stages of product development, owning everything from building frontend components to database design and everything in between, with a particular focus on the user interface and ensuring high-quality code coverage through creating unit tests for both frontend and backend components. Integration tests should also be implemented to ensure the seamless interaction of system components.
• Collaborate with the product and strategy teams to determine the best solutions for development, propose technical solutions, gain consensus for initiatives, implement those proposals, create automated tests, and improve deployment procedures. This includes setting up robust GitHub Actions workflows to handle CI/CD, testing the solutions, deploying them into production, and providing ongoing support as users engage.
• Build new tax-planning products, ranging from customer-oriented, gamified education experiences to real-time asset tracking and trust management tools to advisor relationship-management systems, with a focus on quality assurance through well-defined testing strategies.
• Build out our nascent AI customer service tools, including custom LLMs, automated decision engines, and more, ensuring infrastructure deployment procedures are streamlined and optimized for scalability.
• Help automate manual operations processes to scale our products to thousands of customers, leveraging improved infrastructure automation and GitHub Actions to streamline deployments and testing.

Qualifications

We are seeking engineers who have a track record of delivering value. The ideal candidate has successfully implemented important features and is eager to continue delivering more. In this role, you will be responsible for developing new features, enhancing existing code, and collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You are independent and adept at solving complex problems, and you have a strong desire to delve into the world of fintech. You thrive in an iterative development environment and continuously strive to improve the quality of the code.

• 4+ years of full stack software engineering experience
• Familiar with the technical stack we use at Valur
• Good understanding of infrastructure and modern dev-ops practices
• Experience building and successfully launching products from scratch
• When developing solutions, take into account the entire software development life cycle, including testing, observability, scalability, and monitoring.
• Comfort writing engineering design proposals, presenting them to fellow engineers for feedback, refining your solutions based on the feedback received, and then executing on them.

Tech stack

• Languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Frontend: Vue 2.0, Vue 3.0, Tailwind
• Backend: Django, Django Admin customization, Flask, Async.io, PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure: AWS, Linux, bash scripting
• Prototyping: Figma
• AI: LangChain, OpenAI
• Others: Playwright, Gitlab, Bugsnag

Location & Culture

We believe that talent is distributed globally but opportunity isn’t, and we’re excited to find the right people to help us build Valur, wherever they are. To that end, we are remote first and plan to be for the foreseeable future.

We are a small, efficient team of under 15 people, fostering an environment of constant learning and improvement. You’ll have regular interaction with leadership and collaborate closely with the head of engineering, who will provide regular one-on-one feedback and support your growth in the role.

What we offer

• Remote-first: Work from anywhere
• An opportunity to play a critical role in a rapidly growing company.
• A collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Lots of personal growth.
• Competitive salary + significant equity stake so you share in the upside with us!