Software Engineer

Job overview

The Software Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. Compensation is not specified. The engineer supports Instead’s AI-powered tax platform used by accounting firms and corporate tax departments. The engineer builds and ships full-stack product features and production AI components for tax preparation, compliance, filing, and advisory workflows. The role also improves internal engineering tools and addresses customer feedback, product bugs, and architecture needs as the team scales.

What you'll do

• Ship full-stack features for the live customer platform
• build and integrate production AI components, including inference and prompt engineering
• improve products using customer feedback and usage analytics
• resolve product bugs across the stack
• build internal tools and platforms
• partner with product teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions
• contribute to architecture decisions.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

full-stack development

production ai

tax technology

vue

nuxt

typescript

go

aws

postgresql

san francisco ca

instead

customer-facing product

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Production AI engineering for tax workflows, using a stack that includes Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Go, AWS, and PostgreSQL.

About the employer

Instead is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.