Software Engineer
Instead, San Francisco +1
The role
You'll build the AI-powered tax platform that hundreds of accounting firms use every day. You'll work across the full stack, shipping features on our customer-facing product and building internal tooling that powers our engineering team. This is production AI work, not research. You'll be writing code that handles real tax returns, real deadlines, and real customer data.
Our stack: Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS on the frontend. Go, Docker on AWS ECS/Fargate, and PostgreSQL on AWS RDS on the backend. For AI, we use Cursor, Claude Code, Helicone, Gemini, and OpenAI, and we're constantly evaluating new tools.
What you will do
- Ship full-stack product features end to end for our live customer platform
- Build and integrate AI-powered components including production-level inference and prompt engineering
- Make key product improvements based on customer feedback and usage analytics
- Solve critical product bugs across the full stack with high urgency during tax season
- Create tools and internal platforms that enhance the productivity of Instead's engineering and product teams