Founding Engineer

As Founding Full-stack Engineer at Tally, you’ll play a crucial role in building the initial product experience and APIs, agentic systems, and internal tools to transform a massive tax and financial advisory services industry. We’re well funded by top investors and have years of runway.

As a Founding Engineer, you will:

• Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member
• Design, develop, test, and support features for our web and backend applications
• Architect and build cutting-edge AI document extraction and agentic systems
• Build internal tooling for tax advisor and client collaboration
• Take ownership of projects from concept to production
• Work with the latest large language models and cutting edge AI
• Collaborate directly with clients (SMBs), platform partners, and tax advisors

Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Tailwind, React, PostgreSQL, Supabase, OpenAI, Anthropic, Reducto. Who you are

• Customer and product obsessed
• Excited about solving unsolved problems
• Capable of growing into a leadership position and running an engineering team
• Have 2+ years of startup engineering experience; studied CS/AI or have equivalent experience
• Have built and shipped products to end users from 0 to 1
• Are fast at 0 to 1, but also thoughtful about how your technical decisions will scale over time
• Sweat the details (no problem is too small)

Benefits and work environment

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• SF private office, lunches and snacks
• Take what you need PTO

Interview process

• Chat with founder (30 mins)
• Technical interview (combination of live coding, systems design, and discussing past projects) (1 hour)
• SF on-site to work on a real-world feature alongside founder (few days, weekend)