Software Engineer, Product

🕒 August 26, 2025

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Numeral (YC W23)

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

💰 $500k Pre Seed Round on 2023-04

eCommerce • SaaS • Compliance

Numeral is a company backed by Y Combinator that offers an automated solution for sales tax compliance, targeting eCommerce and SaaS businesses. Their platform helps clients connect their businesses, monitor sales, register in tax applicable states, collect appropriate taxes, and remit them in a streamlined process. By automating and managing various aspects of sales tax registration, collection, and remittance, Numeral enables businesses to significantly reduce the time spent on these tasks to under five minutes per month. Trusted by leading businesses, Numeral provides a reliable, all-in-one platform ensuring timely compliance across numerous tax jurisdictions, simplifying the complex world of sales tax for its users.

📋 Description

• Numeral builds the automation backbone for internet commerce, starting with sales tax compliance • Mission: eliminate administrative and accounting burdens that distract online businesses • Foundational Full-Stack Engineer to define foundational architecture and lead platform engineering • Design and build scalable, secure backend services and APIs from scratch • Make architectural decisions optimizing for speed, data integrity, and maintainability • Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to develop performant systems • Own infrastructure, observability, and performance for the services you build • Help shape engineering best practices, code quality, and backend culture • Work in a fast-growing, early-stage startup with strong mentorship and ownership opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building backend systems in high-growth environments • Fluency with backend technologies like Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud services (AWS preferred) • Experience designing robust APIs and distributed systems at scale • Strong product sensibility—able to balance performance, flexibility, and speed • Comfortable working in dynamic startup environments with evolving needs • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Bonus: Experience in payments, tax, accounting, or regulatory tech • Bonus: Infrastructure or platform engineering background (e.g., CI/CD, observability) • Bonus: Experience scaling monolith-to-service architectures or event-driven systems • Bonus: Familiarity with GraphQL, Kafka, Terraform, or container orchestration tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity • Be a core builder in an ambitious, globally minded startup • Learn hands-on how to scale international compliance systems • Work across functions and with leadership early in your career • Make a visible impact immediately through enablement and operational design • Enjoy a flexible, remote-first culture with strong mentorship and ownership opportunities