Founding Engineer at Tabular | Y Combinator
Do you want to work on an extremely ambitious project?
AI will be the biggest revolution to accounting since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in 1494. As the cost of intelligence trends towards zero, we will be able to handle accounting’s unstructured data and language-based rules fully autonomously.
The consequence will be profound. Accounting is the source of truth on what happens in a business. It drives every investment, expansion and company survival. In the intelligence age, business owners with no financial expertise will get access to all the latent knowledge hidden in their books. Businesses will operate with a level of clarity, confidence, and speed that is almost unimaginable today.
Tabular is leading the charge. We are live in several of Germany’s most forward-thinking accounting firms, automating the books of Sequoia-backed startups, family-owned restaurants, and 30-person wood manufacturers.
We are looking for an intense founding engineer who wants to build at the frontier.
Read more about our mission. (https://www.gotabular.de/mission)
Why join Tabular?
Build at frontier - We believe that the current time window is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Technological shifts happen once, and then they don’t come again. There was only one brief point in time where it was possible to found Amazon, Uber or Facebook. This is that moment for autonomous accounting.
Small team, massive leverage - We believe that 10-person teams of highly capable people can outperform a 100-person org. We value intense focus, high agency and being all-in.
Join at the ground floor - We are a 5-person team and laying the foundations to start hyperscaling. There is a lot more responsibility than we have people.
Super difficult problems - ****We are aggressively pushing what’s possible with AI / LLMs and building a general ledger from scratch. There are no limitations to your learning curve.
Forge the core architecture – You won’t just ship features, you’ll build the foundations of our autonomous-accounting engine. You’ll choose the stack, set the engineering bar, and bake in patterns that every future hire will follow.
In-person culture - We’re working in-person in our office at Berlin Hackescher Markt.
Product-driven team - We are building in an extremely tech and product-driven market. Every person in the founding team has a tech or product background.
Compensation - We aim to pay competitively for cash compensation and well above market for equity compensation, because all of us are all-in, and we want you to be too.
World class investors - We’ve raised a $4.7M Seed with Y Combinator, LocalGlobe (Robinhood, Wise, Figma), and Rerail (fund of best fintech founders in Europe), along with some of the most influential accounting firm leaders in Germany.
What you will work on
Talk regularly with customers, figure out their real accounting pain points, and build exactly the features they need.
Set up robust backend systems that won’t break. Even when processing thousands of invoices and transactions every single day.
Constantly test and tweak new AI approaches to automate accounting tasks better than anyone else.
Own projects that actually matter, taking ideas from the whiteboard straight to our users.
