Engineering Manager

Engineering plays a very central part in the business.

As a company with a world-class API solution for all things tax, we prioritise quality over quantity in our development. We care about creating scalable, easy-to-operate, easy-to-expand, and easy-to-maintain software that our customers and daily users can rely on.

Some pointers about our engineering culture:

• Engineers are given customer problems to solve rather than features to build.

• We understand the customer's needs before considering implementation details.

• Engineers are owners of their past, present, and future, encompassing architecture, tools, coding, testing, deployment, operations, and scaling.

• We work in lean, small teams. We co‑own the product roadmap with product managers.

• We choose collaboration, compassion, and trust over individualism and politics.

• We prefer innovation through constant iteration and trust over competition and perfect solutions.

• We support one another, are naturally kind, and provide constructive feedback to continually improve as professionals.

• We boil down complex problems and consistently seek the most straightforward solutions.

• We take quality and security seriously and factor it into everything we do.

• We are comfortable with change in terms of priorities, goals and deadlines. We see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle.

• We are never satisfied with the status quo and push for improvements.

• We seek those looking to make a severe impact and are excited about working in a high‑growth startup.

• We ship fast, continuously, and iteratively multiple times per day, learning with each step.

• We embrace mistakes as a conduit for learning. We don’t blame and consider every failure an opportunity to improve.

• We measure everything, use the data to make decisions, and influence the direction.

• We don’t allow blockers to prevent us from delivering. We step out of our comfort zone to find solutions and collaborate with other teams to advance initiatives.

• We say things as they are, we don’t beat around the bush, we don’t waste time.

• We ship.

We have a suite of standalone API products that automate tax‑related workflows for any internet company which all together build a comprehensive platform. Those products are Lookup, Tax, Returns, Data sharing and E‑Invoicing.

We may discover new customer needs as we learn and develop new products as needed.

For you as an engineer, API documentation is probably an important part when considering a new career move. Thanks to the API docs, you can recognise how an API works and how it is structured.

Please visit our API documentation to learn more about our API endpoints and their usage:

Fonoa has a suite of API products that automate tax‑related workflows for any internet company. Check them out below:

• For the backend, we use Node and Go.

• For the front end, we use React
  
  JS, htmx and Typescript.

• For persistence, we use Postgre
  
  SQL.

• We use GCP for our cloud services.

• We manage our infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes CRDs, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and Data Dog.

"As an engineer, I follow a product through its lifecycle, from ideation to delivery and support, which gives a lot of exposure to the technology and customer needs. This allows me to learn to improve both myself and the product constantly." - Philip Beel, Engineering Manager.

• Learn about how painful it is for companies to manually handle the tax lifecycle, and think about how our systems change the status quo.

• Run a product engineering team, aligning business objectives with technical delivery.

• Partnering with the Product Manager, co‑owning the product roadmap

• Guiding on day‑to‑day tactical work, hiring, onboarding, developing and mentoring. Your success is your team’s success.

• Contribute to the broader engineering culture and goals by collaborating on high‑level strategy with other Engineering Managers and our CTO.

• Continuously strive to build the best API product, leveraging the best experience and capabilities.

• You are fully proficient in English. Written and spoken, as we are a bunch from around the world, but we work in English.

• You optimise for distributed and asynchronous work,…