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Job Location drjobs

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

USD 170000 - 210000

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

About Us

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible transparent and liquid and were achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.

At Sydecar were not just a platform; were a trusted partner in venture capital. Were dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks from automating banking ensuring compliance handling contracts managing taxes to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

Locations: New York City San Francisco Seattle (Hybrid choose any 2 days each week to work from the office)


The Opportunity

Join Sydecars Platform team and take ownership of some of the most complex and high-impact problems in financial technology. Were building sophisticated software that automates complex tax calculations compliance workflows and accounting processesreplacing manual work with intelligent systems that scale across multiple jurisdictions and investment structures.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Tax & Accounting youll have the opportunity to model complex financial workflows build scalable tax and accounting infrastructure and ship end-to-end features that make compliance accessible to non-technical users.

About our Engineering Team

This role sits within the Platform/Internal Tooling Team which focuses on building systems that enable our Finance Operations and Customer Experience teams to work faster smarter and more efficiently.

Our Tech Stack

  • Frontend: TypeScript and React in a Mono-Repo structure

  • Backend: TypeScript using NestJS and Prisma

  • Database: PostgreSQL

Core Responsibilities

  • Model complex tax and accounting workflows from real-world fund data

  • Build scalable infrastructure such as tax engines GL automations and transaction pipelines

  • Ensure data integrity and audit-readiness across jurisdictions and fund structures

  • Ship end-to-end features from backend data pipelines to frontend tools that make tax and accounting workflows accessible to fund managers and investors

Cross Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with product QA and technical support to deliver robust user-facing tools

  • Work closely with internal tax/accounting experts as we move from manual processes to automated systems youll help clean up legacy data models streamline integrations and increase system reliability

Leadership & Quality

  • Lead and mentor junior engineers in the design development and testing of software applications

  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices

  • Design and build multi-part solutions to story tasks taking into account risk mitigation and advanced testing processes including building tests using React Testing Library and Playwright

What Were Looking For

  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience ideally working on a similar tech stack to Sydecar

  • Experience with TypeScript and React required

  • A strong background in building back-end systems

  • Understanding of financial workflows or eagerness to dive deep into tax calculations fund accounting and compliance systems youre curious about financial systems and motivated to understand how investment structures and tax logic intersect with software

  • Thrive in complexity modeling ambiguous problems messy data and evolving regulatory requirements in a relational database (PostgreSQL) where every record is critical

  • Build for reliability designing systems to produce audit-ready financial and tax outputs not best-effort calculations

  • Experience writing unit and E2E tests

  • Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to foster collaboration across teams and support the growth of junior engineers

  • Great analytical and problem solving skills with a knack for debugging tricky issues and coming up with creative solutions

  • Execution-focused comfortable with balancing tradeoffs and making progress in a fast-moving environment

Bonus If You Have

  • A Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field

  • Experience with Agile development methodologies and version control systems such as Git

  • Knowledge of cloud-based technologies such as GCP

  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins or Docker

  • Prior experience working in Fintech

  • Experience with tax software accounting systems or compliance platforms

  • Knowledge of fund structures tax regulations or financial reporting requirements

Our Commitment

Were building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another. If you dont tick every box above wed still encourage you to apply. We have more great opportunities on other Engineering teams so please just apply to one open role. The team will consider you for all open roles that could be a fit!

Sydecars values

Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities behaviors and interactions.

Ownership

We are committed to and proud of our work and growth. We hold ourselves accountable for achieving our goals.

Excellence

We set and exceed ambitious goals through ownership data-driven decisions and rigorous execution.

Humility

We value feedback and recognize that growth comes from learning from each other and our experiences.

Win Together

We are driven by a passion for winning and we champion the success of our team members our customers and our partners.

Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin sex (including pregnancy) age physical mental or sensory disability HIV Status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service family medical history or genetic information family or parental status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.


Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type

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Company Industry

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Engineering

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