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Senior Backend Engineer

Engineering

Remote · Full-time

Design and build the data pipelines, edge functions, and APIs that power Heed's tax intelligence engine. You'll work with Postgres, Deno, and real-time event systems at scale.

What you'll do

  • •Architect and maintain Supabase Edge Functions (Deno/TypeScript) that power tax change ingestion, alerting, and scenario analysis
  • •Design and optimise Postgres schemas for multi-jurisdiction tax data with RLS policies
  • •Build queue-based email delivery and real-time notification pipelines
  • •Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe billing, AI models, government data sources)
  • •Own reliability: monitoring, error handling, and graceful degradation across all backend services

What we're looking for

  • •5+ years backend engineering experience with TypeScript or JavaScript
  • •Strong PostgreSQL skills: query optimisation, migrations, row-level security
  • •Experience with serverless/edge compute (Deno, Cloudflare Workers, or similar)
  • •Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup with minimal process
  • •Clear written communication. We're async-first and remote

Nice to have

  • •Familiarity with Supabase or Firebase ecosystem
  • •Prior fintech, regtech, or tax-domain experience
  • •Experience with AI/LLM integration in production systems

Interested?

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