Back-office finance platform for solopreneurs: entity formation, payroll, tax
Collective bundles LLC and S Corp setup, payroll, bookkeeping and tax filing for self-employed operators. Its stack pairs a Django/FastAPI and React product with a full Salesforce build-out (Apex, Lightning Web Components, Marketing Cloud) and CCH tax software, a sign of a service-heavy model run by in-house accountants. Accelerating, engineering-led hiring centers on an LLM-based automation layer and a dbt/BigQuery data platform.
Notable leadership hires: Product Lead
Collective is a San Francisco-based financial services company founded in 2020 that serves self-employed professionals and one-person businesses. The platform covers business entity formation, payroll, tax preparation, monthly bookkeeping and ongoing compliance in a single offering. Customers get both software and access to a support team. The company is privately held, employs 51–200 people, and currently hires in the United States across engineering, product, sales, finance, support, data and security.
Collective runs Python with Django and FastAPI, React and TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Redis on AWS and GCP with Terraform and Docker. Its data stack uses Fivetran, dbt, BigQuery and Metabase, and its CRM is Salesforce.
Job posts point to an AI integration layer, LLM-driven automation, dbt data models and pipelines, CI/CD engineering, an end-to-end outreach program and expansion into new product verticals.
Collective is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2020, has 51–200 employees, and hires in the United States.
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