Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Fullstack

Posted on 9/3/2025

Puzzle.io

Puzzle.io

51-200 employees

SaaS financial management with AI automation

Compensation Overview

$173k - $183k/yr

No H1B Sponsorship

Seattle, WA, USA + 1 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Candidates should be currently residing in the U.S. or Canada to be eligible for this position.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
React.js
NoSQL
SQL
GraphQL
TypeScript
Next.js
REST APIs
Requirements
  • 5+ years as a software engineer, with experience working across the stack (frontend leaning)
  • Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend tooling (Next.js experience a plus)
  • Strong UI/UX sensibilities — you care about creating intuitive, performant, and pixel-perfect experiences
  • Experience building and integrating with RESTful APIs; GraphQL familiarity a plus
  • Comfortable writing backend code when needed, particularly for API endpoints or light data transformations
  • Solid understanding of databases (SQL, NoSQL) and how frontend and backend systems connect
  • Proactive and self-driven: you take high ownership over projects, from shaping technical direction to delivering a polished user experience
  • Product-minded: you thrive in cross-functional collaboration and balance user needs with technical trade-offs
Responsibilities
  • Partner with product and design to deliver intuitive, high-impact features that help users understand and act on their financial data
  • Architect, build, and maintain complex UI components using React, TypeScript, and Next.js
  • Contribute to shared frontend libraries, design systems, and performance optimization across the app
  • Build end-to-end features, including backend integration with REST and GraphQL APIs
  • Collaborate with backend engineers to design scalable data flows and APIs that power the frontend experience
  • Own features from concept to production, ensuring reliability, usability, and performance
  • Provide technical mentorship and peer reviews, raising the bar for code quality and product thinking
Desired Qualifications
  • Bonus: background in fintech, finance, or accounting systems — or a passion to modernize them

Puzzle.io provides a subscription-based financial management platform for startups, offering automated, real-time accounting and financial reporting. It uses AI to automate data entry and ensure accuracy, and features real-time financial statements, key metrics, and guided revenue recognition. A one-click tax package simplifies tax preparation, and integrations with Stripe and Brex enable seamless data flow. The platform also connects users with experienced tax experts and includes a spotlight tool to highlight changes in financial data for easy tracking. Puzzle.io aims to save startups time and money by delivering accurate, up-to-date financials and easier tax compliance, helping early-stage companies manage their finances more efficiently and scale.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$50M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Accounting firms like Decimal partner with Puzzle for efficiency gains.
  • AI automates 85-95% of tasks, accelerating month-end closes by 50%.
  • $45M funding fuels AI-powered accounting expansion since 2019 launch.

What critics are saying

  • Intuit QuickBooks dominates 80% market, eroding Puzzle's share in 6-12 months.
  • Ramp's 2026 AI module steals integrations, slashing Puzzle's volume 40%.
  • OpenAI's 2026 API lets Xero commoditize Puzzle's tech in 12-24 months.

What makes Puzzle.io unique

  • Puzzle rebuilds general ledger from scratch for AI-native accrual automation.
  • Simultaneously supports cash and accrual accounting without spreadsheets.
  • Integrates natively with Stripe, Brex, Ramp, Mercury, and Gusto.

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Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
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Nov 14th, 2024
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Puzzle, a San Francisco-based fintech startup, has launched an AI-powered accounting platform designed to automate up to 90% of routine tasks, allowing accountants to focus on more strategic work. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Puzzle CEO Sasha Orloff outlined how the company’s new general ledger software integrates complex accounting policies directly into the platform, aiming to eliminate the need for manual spreadsheet processes.“What we’re launching now is effectively taking the general ledger, the backbone of accounting, and bringing complicated accounting logic from spreadsheets into the core accounting software,” Orloff said.The platform supports both cash and accrual accounting, offering a solution for businesses of all sizes. Orloff emphasized that the system is designed to provide real-time, accurate accounting tailored to the increasing demands of today’s fast-paced business environment, especially as the accounting industry faces a shortage of talent and growing workloads.Automating complex accounting tasks with Puzzle’s AI general ledgerPuzzle’s platform addresses the challenges of manual accounting by automating processes like revenue recognition, asset depreciation, and prepaid expenses. Traditionally, these tasks require spreadsheets, which must then be reconciled with accounting software such as QuickBooks.“In QuickBooks, you typically have to calculate things like revenue recognition, fixed assets, and prepaid expenses manually in spreadsheets,” Orloff explained

VentureBeat
May 6th, 2024
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Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here. Accounting, a critical-yet-often-cumbersome aspect of running a business, is getting a major overhaul thanks to artificial intelligence. Sasha Orloff, cofounder and CEO of Puzzle, is leading the charge to transform how startups handle their finances by leveraging bleeding-edge AI and machine learning technologies.“Accounting is something you have to get right — it’s 100%, or [it’s] zero,” said Orloff in a recent interview with VentureBeat. “It’s like going to Mars: if you get 95% of the way to Mars, it doesn’t really matter

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