NumeralHQ is building the automation backbone for internet commerce, starting with the painful world of sales tax compliance. The business problem is to eliminate the administrative and accounting burdens that distract businesses from doing what they love, by providing a white-glove service that handles everything from registration to remittance.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS (or equivalent cloud platforms).
- Experience managing containerized workloads using tools like Kubernetes, ECS, or similar.
- Expertise in observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and monitoring pipelines.
- Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, distributed systems at scale.
- Strong debugging and performance optimization skills across the stack.
- Familiarity with Temporal, GraphQL, Kafka, Terraform, or container orchestration tools.
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable services to support critical APIs, services, and data pipelines.
- Lead service architecture decisions for performance, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Drive improvements in system reliability, monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborate closely with product, platform, and data engineering teams to enable rapid feature development without compromising stability.
- Automate service deployment through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration.
- Champion best practices in microservice design, disaster recovery, and distributed systems design.
Other
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling backend or infrastructure systems in high-growth environments.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering cross-functionally.
- Experience in payments, tax, accounting, or regulatory tech.
- Infrastructure or platform engineering background (e.g., CI/CD, observability).
- Experience scaling monolith-to-service architectures or event-driven systems.
