Taxgpt

Job Summary:
TaxGPT is revolutionizing the tax and accounting space with AI-driven solutions tailored for accountants, tax professionals, and SMBs. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep Django expertise to help build and scale the core application layer, focusing on designing backend systems and improving performance and security in production systems.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain core backend systems using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework
• Own application architecture for backend features, including domain modeling, business logic, API design, and integrations
• Build reliable, secure, and well-documented APIs used by our frontend and internal services
• Write efficient, scalable database queries in PostgreSQL , and improve performance through indexing, query tuning, caching, and thoughtful schema design
• Manage database migrations and evolving data models safely in production
• Build and maintain asynchronous and background job workflows for longer-running tasks and system processes
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational readiness in collaboration with the broader engineering team
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, and data protection patterns appropriate for sensitive financial workflows
• Review code , mentor other engineers, and raise the standard for backend quality, testing, and maintainability
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and leadership to translate ambiguous requirements into clean technical solutions
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help the team balance speed, simplicity, and long-term scalability
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant production experience in Python and Django
• Deep understanding of Django architecture, including models, views, serializers, middleware, auth, admin, signals, migrations, and application structure
• Strong experience with Django REST Framework
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and migration strategy
• Experience building and scaling production backend services and complex business logic in growing product environments
• Strong understanding of testing and reliability practices, including unit, integration, and API-level testing
• Experience with asynchronous systems and background job processing, plus strong backend security fundamentals
• Clear communicator who collaborates well across teams and operates effectively in a fast moving startup environment
Preferred:
• Experience with AI/LLM-enabled products or backend systems that support AI workflows
• Experience in fintech, tax, accounting, or other regulated domains
• Experience scaling Django applications with caching, background workers, performance monitoring and production deployment environments
• Experience improving developer experience, code quality, and engineering standards across a backend team
Company:
TaxGPT uses artificial intelligence and tax information to automate tax filing. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.