How Taxdoo used Remote to scale its engineering team across Europe with speed and confidence.

At a glance

Taxdoo needed a way to hire across Europe without it becoming too complicated, too lengthy, or too overwhelming with risky, complex legal requirements that differ from region to region. Their HR team found a smarter route, one that was speedy, simple, and had experts handling the compliance part throughout.  

They didn’t have to open a single entity, either.

• Company: Taxdoo
• Industry: Fintech (VAT automation, e-commerce accounting)
• Headquarters: Germany
  
• Use case: Scale engineering hiring across Europe without setting up local entities

Scaling across Europe, without the legal headaches

Taxdoo is a Germany-based fintech company helping businesses automate VAT and accounting. As the business expanded, it needed to hire engineering and product talent in multiple countries, but didn’t have the legal set-up to do so compliantly.

Before, the HR team handled things step by tedious step, manually, for each potential hire. One employee in the UK, for example, was hired on a German contract and paid through a UK payroll provider. But as hiring across different countries picked up, that kind of setup became risky and harder to manage.

“We knew we had to expand internationally, but we couldn’t afford to manage a network of third-party providers. We needed a compliant, scalable solution that didn’t overload our HR team.” 

Johanna Kuhlencord, HR Business Partner, Taxdoo

“Remote took the legal complexity off our shoulders. We could hire where the talent was without worrying about employment law, payroll rules, or compliance pitfalls.”

Johanna Kuhlencord, HR Business Partner, Taxdoo

Taxdoo was ready to expand faster, and needed to hire people in different countries, but doing it themselves, hire by hire, was sluggish and frustrating. With Remote, they didn’t have to build a new process every time. Quickly their global hiring pipeline sped up, semi-automated, centralized, and adaptable.

They could get their more ambitious growth plans off the ground without worries over breaking any local rules, or losing track of what was happening. 

To recap, with Remote, Taxdoo was able to:

• Hire team members in seven countries through one platform
• Onboarded new hires in five to ten business days 
• Eliminate the need to setup local entities or manage third-party vendors
• Reduce HR and legal workload through centralized support
• Lower per-team-member costs with flexible hiring agreements

“Remote gave us the infrastructure to grow, and the insight to plan our next moves. Without it, we’d be stuck reacting to complexity. Instead, we’re making proactive, long-term decisions.”

Johanna Kuhlencord, HR Business Partner, Taxdoo