After spending 5 and a half years working at Google in the Bay Area, I moved home to Houston, Texas to be closer to family. Shortly after, I joined the incredible team at TaxJar in May of 2016.
Hiring. It’s only the most important thing in the world for a company like ours that has outsized ambitions. Early on, we learned what nearly every single company in history finds out — nothing about hiring is easy.
As a developer at TaxJar, each day provides an interesting mix of new challenges and problems to solve. We’re a fast growing technology company processing millions of eCommerce transactions and calculations every month. Our team works across the United States…
By the time most of us here at TaxJar meet in person for the first time, we’ve chatted on Flowdock daily, spoken on video chat at least once per week (or daily if we’re on the same team), and even witnessed each other belting…
At TaxJar, we’re a happy bunch. We like to have fun, but one thing we also all like to do, is work (well, work at TaxJar!). Someone very wise once told me that “If you love what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.” And while…
At a conference last year, I found myself chatting with a group of tech founders…
I see the same look on every new employees face (by way of video of course) when they hear about our longest-standing, and most proud company tradition. There’s a smile hiding a slight twinge of fear and anxiety with that look that says, “You’re joking…
At TaxJar, we love working remotely. And we’ve created a team culture and strategies that we feel make us very successful as a distributed team. We work hard and have fun daily, and our…
Just seven months after our initial launch, we received an offer to buy TaxJar.
It’s safe to say we were flattered. We’re always flattered anytime another company sees so much value in TaxJar that they offer us money to take controlling interest. But this…
One of the questions we get fairly often at TaxJar is what made us decide to…