
A Fast Company “Most Innovative Companies 2025” honoree, K1x is the leading data distribution platform for alternative investment tax compliance as well as the industry standard, IRS-certified solution for seamless tax-exempt filings. The fintech company’s patented, AI-powered SaaS solution digitizes and distributes tax data seamlessly–connecting investors, accounting firms, tax software, IRS and state taxing authorities–simplifying complex processes, accelerating filings, reducing costs, and delivering greater control and accessibility. K1x is battle-tested by the best, and trusted by more than 8000 organizations including 44 of 100 largest institutional investors in the US, 20 of the top 25 accounting firms, 11 of the top 100 private foundations, 45 of the top 100 university endowments, and 7 of the top 40 health systems.

A Fast Company “Most Innovative Companies 2025” honoree, K1x is the leading data distribution platform for alternative investment tax compliance as well as the industry standard, IRS-certified solution for seamless tax-exempt filings. The fintech company’s patented, AI-powered SaaS solution digitizes and distributes tax data seamlessly–connecting investors, accounting firms, tax software, IRS and state taxing authorities–simplifying complex processes, accelerating filings, reducing costs, and delivering greater control and accessibility. K1x is battle-tested by the best, and trusted by more than 8000 organizations including 44 of 100 largest institutional investors in the US, 20 of the top 25 accounting firms, 11 of the top 100 private foundations, 45 of the top 100 university endowments, and 7 of the top 40 health systems.
Business: AI-powered SaaS platform for digitizing, validating, distributing, and e-filing private market tax data (K-1s, K-3s, 1099s, W-2s, 990s)
Scale / Customers: Trusted by thousands of organizations (customers cited as 8,000+ and statements up to 40,000+ in different materials)
Funding: Series B announced Sep 26, 2024; lead investor Edison Partners; reported $20M
Founders: Geralyn Hurd (Co-founder, President) and Neal Schneider (Co-founder, CTO)
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Alternative investment tax data operations and compliance automation.
2022
Technology, Information and Internet
$20M
“Edison Partners lead/sole investor in disclosed rounds”
Fully Remote Position
Preferred Locations: Midwest based; Indianapolis, IN or IL, Chicagoland Area preferred Who We Are: We are K1X. Our technology is used by the nation's largest institutional investors, funds, and accounting firms, by bringing long- established solutions that are creating an all-digital K-1 experience. Our goal is to transform the K-1 industry by moving a traditionally analog based-process to an all-digital experience via our software solutions. Join us at the start of something exciting! Learn more at www.k1x.io
About Your Role We're seeking an experienced and technically proficient Lead Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a servant leadership role that combines technical excellence, mentoring, and architecture ownership within a highly collaborative agile team. As a lead, you'll contribute directly to our codebase, provide hands-on coaching and guidance to engineers, and help shape the team's engineering culture, tools, and standards.
You should be a self-starter with deep experience across the Microsoft tech stack and a passion for building scalable SaaS products. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering the high-quality, secure, and performant solutions our clients rely on during their most critical deadlines.
Your Responsibilities
Requirements Who You Are: As the ideal candidate for this role, you possess:
It's Truly a Match If You Have: In addition to the above, we're looking for candidates who have:
Benefits
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
9+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years of team leadership or senior mentoring responsibility
A strong focus in full-stack C# .NET web applications, including experience with .NET Core, Typescript/JavaScript (Angular 2+ preferred, React/Vue/etc acceptable)
Familiarity with SaaS architecture and cloud-native development using:
Azure Services (Service Bus, Functions, API Manager, Azure SQL, Redis, Postgres DB.)
Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
Demonstrated expertise in testing strategies using tools like NUnit, MSTest, and Playwright
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and using Azure DevOps (ADO) or equivalents, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
A strong understanding of software design principles, security best practices, and system integration patterns
Proven debugging and troubleshooting ability across distributed systems and services