Sphere helps US software companies manage their global sales tax / VAT / GST compliance requirements. Our platform helps with everything from nexus monitoring, registration, calculation and filing/remittance.

Companies like Runway AI choose Sphere because we’re the only product that offers true global coverage, is easy to implement and reasonably priced.

• We're growing rapidly (30%+ MoM revenue growth) and have signed customers like Runway AI, Replit, ElevenLabs, Zeplin, Codeium + many more
• We're building the world's first tax-focused LLMs (which we believe will be the foundation for a broader cross border compliance platform; think Deel for international billing)
• We're well funded by Felicis Ventures and the founders of Flexport, Lyft, Betterup, Go1 and Xendit

We’re looking for a full stack engineer with a front end focus at Sphere to help build out our global tax compliance platform!

About Sphere

Sphere helps US software companies manage their global sales tax / VAT / GST compliance requirements.

Companies like Runway AI choose our platform because we’re the only product that offers true global coverage, is easy to implement and reasonably priced.

• We're growing rapidly (30%+ MoM revenue growth) and have signed customers like Runway AI, , Replit, ElevenLabs, Weaviate, Zeplin, Sierra AI, Codeium, Ideogram + many more
• We're building the world's first tax-focused LLMs (which will be the foundation for a broader cross border compliance platform; think Deel for international billing)
• We're well funded by Felicis Ventures and the founders of Flexport, Lyft, Betterup, Go1 and Xendit

Why this is a massive opportunity

🌍 The market is enormous: This is a ‘need to have’ solution for every business around the world once they hit a certain stage. It’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore (see below) and if businesses don’t collect and remit indirect tax, they end up paying for it out of pocket later.

🌬️ Strong macro tailwinds: Businesses are going global earlier and earlier and they’re not equipped to deal with cross border compliance. Additionally, tax authorities are clamping down on cross border tax compliance which means demand for this solution will continue to grow (e.g. EU forcing payment processors to hand over tax evaders from April 1, 2024).

✨ AI can change the game - a lot of processes related to tax compliance / research have been extremely manual and cumbersome to date. That’s why incumbents like Avalara, Vertex (and newer players like Anrok) haven’t been able to move outside the US. We think LLMs can change that.

🔮 Product vision: We believe that tax-focused LLMs will be the foundation of a broader cross border compliance platform that help businesses go global from day 1. We want to be the Deel for international billing.

What you will do

Within days:

• Work closely with our Founder & CEO (who manages product) on understanding key customer needs that must be reflected in our UI / UX
• Ship new product features from Figma to production with our Design Lead (ex Deel) and back end team in your first week

Within months:

• Completely own the UI and UX experience at Sphere
• Interact with customers and partners to research, design and launch new features

What we are looking for

A front end engineer with:

• Strong experience in Nextjs/React
• Design skills and extensive experience with Figma
• Early stage experience - we want people with a hardcore mentality and a a desire to own something from the early stages + grind

Web app - a Django/Python backend and a Nextjs/React front end powers a modern web based platform that offers functionality to 1. monitor indirect tax exposure, 2. register with tax authorities, 3. calculate / collect the correct sales tax within customer billing systems and 4. file / remit the correct indirect tax returns to relevant tax authorities.

Tax-focused LLMs - we leverage new scraping tech and LLMs to collect, monitor and process tax rate and tax legislation data across the world. This feeds into our web app / customers systems via API.