How Taxdoo used Remote to scale its engineering team across Europe with speed and confidence.
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.
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
The HR team turned to Remote after recommendations from colleagues. It gave Taxdoo a simpler way to manage hiring in one place, with global compliance baked in. This meant goodbye to handling every step manually, using different tools and/or providers to meet each country’s legal requirements, and hoping they’d understood them well enough to be compliant.
No more reinventing the wheel for every new hire (wherever they were)
Partnering with Remote meant Taxdoo could bring on team members in the UK, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, and Denmark. No delays, no need to open local entities. Everything from contracts to payroll was sorted through one platform, so the team could focus on growing internationally, without the usual admin stress.
Looking more closely, this meant access to:
Legal employer infrastructure in seven countries
Fully localised contracts and benefits
Centralised onboarding, payroll, and compliance
Guidance on terminations and local labour law
Not needing third-party payroll or legal vendors
“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
Hiring that’s fast now, sustainable later
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, centralised, 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 centralised 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
First stop: the engineering team. Next stop: smarter hiring for all teams
What began with a handful of engineers is now expanding across teams, with more employees hired through Remote as Taxdoo scales.
How it started: as a way to hire engineers abroad.
How it’s going now: the go-to setup for bringing on new people across Europe, spanning multiple teams.