Town’s mission is to give every small business the financial services edge of a Fortune 500 company. We’re starting by building the world’s most advanced small business tax advisory, powered by AI. Each year, more than 10 million business owners feel frustrated, anxious, and overwhelmed by their taxes—they need expert guidance. Town is that expert.

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Meet the founders

Jean-Denis Greze — former CTO at Plaid, where he grew the Engineering, Product, Design org to over 500 while scaling the company to over $300M in revenue
Tony Vincent — Director of Applied AI Product at Google, co-founder of Aspen (acquired by Google) and Sold (acquired by Dropbox)

Key challenges you’ll be tackling

We leverage AI to streamline onboarding, data entry, complex tax calculations, tax return summaries, and deduction optimization—making taxes easier and more accurate for everyone. We're also expanding beyond traditional tax services to help small businesses where they need it most, such as managing cash flow around tax payment deadlines.

While many AI companies focus on chatbots, few are building LLM products that aim to automate over 90% of human work. We believe tax preparation is the perfect vertical domain—and one of the first areas where computers will automate most of the work. As a founding engineer, you'll shape the technical strategy to achieve this automation through designing our workflow system, efficient evaluations, minimizing LLM false-positives, and developing both the agent & copilot tools that support our tax team.
We work with both structured data (like balance sheets) and unstructured data (SMB owner emails, legal contracts). We need to analyze this data accurately to provide high-quality tax and financial advice. While recent search technologies and LLMs help significantly, the data complexity makes this an ongoing challenge.
As automation transforms tax preparation and advisory services, we need to reimagine the user experience to fully leverage these technologies. What happens when tax work that traditionally takes months can be completed in minutes? Do we still need conventional UX elements like questionnaires when the answers already exist in SMBs' emails and systems of record? By combining AI with data integrations, we'll rebuild the UX from scratch—and we'll need every ounce of your engineering creativity to make it happen.

This is an incredibly early-stage opportunity, and most technical decisions are wide open. If that excites you, let’s chat!

How we work

No BS culture: we want to do great work, without politics or process getting in the way. We're hiring people who are excited to grow a company from day one. We seek individuals who are hungry to do their best work alongside a small group of like-minded colleagues. Join us if you want to push yourself, build something extraordinary, and learn from experienced teammates who will challenge you to grow.
Getting in on the ground floor:
- Company Impact: As one of our first hires, you'll shape both technical and product direction for this massive opportunity. Our early team is all engineers except for one designer — you’ll own the product and outcome from your first day!
- Work directly with our world-class founding team. You'll collaborate in-person with Tony, Jean-Denis, and Angela over the next 18–24 months. Join us for energetic whiteboard sessions, a vibrant environment, and the chance to do your best work!
We work as a small team 5 days a week in-person in SF. We really like whiteboards and find they're most effective when the whole team can collaborate in front of them.
- All three founders have kids and families, and we prioritize quality work over hours logged. We understand the need for flexibility—it's absolutely fine to take time for doctor's appointments, children's recitals, and other family commitments when needed.

Business traction

In just a couple of months, our strategy of partnering with fintechs to reach SMBs is showing early signs of success. We've signed several partnerships that will send us hundreds of SMBs for FY 2024 taxes (and have already sent us 10+ SMBs in just the last few weeks). Additionally, we will do smaller pilots with a few other players in the accounting tech space to prove the quality of our product, opening much larger revenue opportunities in 2026+.
We’ve raised an $18m seed round led by First Round Capital, with participation from Conviction (investor in Harvey, HeyGen, Cognition, Sierra, etc.) and Alt Capital (investor in Leya, Owner, The SF Compute Company), as well as world-class angels including Adam D’Angelo, William Hockey, Immad Akhund, and Christina Cacioppo.