--- title: 'Software Engineer, Growth at Numeral' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-growth-numeral-new-york-ra9z52jqcwnb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Software Engineer, Growth at Numeral - **Company:** Numeral - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $160k–$230k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/numeral/4019093f-a90b-476a-82af-c8a2bcf289d1 ## Job description About Numeral: At Numeral, we're building the future of tax by bringing together AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance. We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution. Today, we serve more than 3,500 global businesses, including companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza. We’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, more than tripled our revenue every year, and expanded into new industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale. Numeral has raised over $157M from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, and many others. About the role: We’re looking for a Software Engineer who combines strong engineering fundamentals with business acumen and a metrics-focused mindset. You’ll build customer-facing features, integrations, and internal tools, owning projects from idea to production and measuring their impact. Our Growth Engineering team builds software that helps Numeral acquire, onboard, and retain customers. We partner closely with Product, Sales and Marketing to turn opportunities across the customer journey into measurable business outcomes. What you’ll do: - Build product features, backend services, and internal tools that help Numeral grow. - Improve customer workflows across signup, onboarding, activation, and renewals. - Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to identify and solve business problems. - Own engineering projects end-to-end, from scoping through deployment and iteration. - Instrument key workflows, define success metrics, and measure business impact. - Run experiments and use data and customer feedback to guide improvements. - Write reliable, maintainable code and balance iteration speed with engineering quality. What you'll bring: - 2+ years of software engineering experience shipping production software. - Strong debugging and problem-solving skills. - Experience with backend technologies like Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud services (AWS preferred). - Business acumen: ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes. - A metrics-focused mindset and comfort using data to prioritize and evaluate work. - Ownership: you take initiative and drive projects from idea to production. - Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical teammates. - Startup mentality: comfortable with ambiguity and excited for rapid growth. Nice to haves: - Experience building software in Sales or Marketing space. - Projects involving onboarding, activation, retention, renewals, or expansion. - Experience working in or with Growth functions. Location: - This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our NYC office) What we offer: - Competitive salary and equity - you'll share directly in the company's success - Full medical, dental, and vision coverage - Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App - 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security - Relocation assistance to NYC (if needed) - Lunch and snacks when you're in the office - Regular team offsites and company events as we grow - A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it! ## About Numeral ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Numeral is an AI-native, end-to-end sales tax compliance platform that automates registration, filing, calculation, and remittance for e-commerce and SaaS businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Sam Ross and Matt DuVall ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Sales Tax Compliance / Fintech - **Target customers**: B2B – e-commerce brands, SaaS companies, and any business with multi-state or international sales tax obligations. - **Mission / purpose**: To make sales tax compliance fast, easy, and worry-free so businesses can focus on growth. ## Products & Services - **Numeral Platform**: End-to-end sales tax compliance – automated registration (nexus monitoring), calculation and collection via API, filing, and remittance with white-glove support. - **Global VAT Support**: Coverage for 80+ countries and tens of thousands of jurisdictions. - **Virtual Mailboxes**: Scanning, reading, and responding to physical tax correspondence from state and local governments. - **Exemption Certificate Management**: Verification and storage of exemption certificates to protect during audits. - **Reporting & Dashboards**: Detailed filing history and compliance analytics. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (latest round: Series B in October 2025). - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$57.5M** (Pre-Seed $500K, Seed $4M, Series A $18M, Series B $35M). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Benchmark, Mayfield Fund, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee headcount of **107** (181.6% YoY growth) – [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numeralhq). - Trusted by **3,000+ businesses** including Ridge, Eight Sleep, Grüns, and Manus – [numeral.com](https://www.numeral.com/). - Expanding internationally with team members in 7 countries (El Salvador, Brazil, Japan, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, United States). - 39 active job postings (monthly posting growth of +30%). ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native platform**: Leverages artificial intelligence for accuracy and scale across thousands of tax jurisdictions. - **Filing guarantee**: Numeral guarantees on-time filings and pays penalties & interest if they miss a deadline. - **End-to-end coverage**: Registration, calculation, filing, remittance, and virtual mailbox in a single solution. - **Deep integrations**: Connects with billing platforms and custom checkouts via the Numeral Tax API. - **Founder pedigree**: Co-founders scaled 9-figure businesses and led engineering teams at Stripe, Notion, and Box – [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral). ## Strategic Focus - **AI-driven automation**: Continuing to build intelligent workflows that reduce manual tax work. - **Global expansion**: Expanding international VAT coverage and supporting cross-border compliance. - **Customer growth**: Scaling the customer base beyond early adopters to serve mid-market and enterprise companies. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and tax operations – [careers](https://www.numeral.com/careers). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Scrappy, gets stuff done, moves the ball forward" – built by former operators and engineers from Stripe, Notion, and Airbnb. - **Work policy**: Hybrid – HQ in San Francisco with remote options within the US (as noted on Y Combinator jobs). - **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity (stock options), comprehensive health/wellness perks, top-of-the-line equipment. - **Growth potential**: One of the fastest-growing Y Combinator companies; employees get to shape a platform in a massive, underserved market. - **Team**: Small but rapidly growing (107 employees) with a flat structure and direct access to founders. ## Sources 1. [numeral.com/about](https://www.numeral.com/about) 2. [numeral.com](https://www.numeral.com/) 3. [numeral.com/careers](https://www.numeral.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/numeralhq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numeralhq) 5. 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