Staff Full-Stack Engineer

The role

You will lead critical cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to deployment. You will design and build scalable systems and tools to simplify taxes.

What you will do

• Lead critical, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to development and deployment
• Participate in technical decision-making and knowledge sharing across multiple teams
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices
• Guide service ownership, observability, and operational best practices
• Promote a culture of high standards, clean code, testing, and continuous improvement

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 2+ years as a senior, staff or principal-level role
• Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS)
• Deep expertise in backend technologies, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/gRPC APIs
• Strong hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and full-stack engineering practices
• Fluency in system design and architecture
• Track record of shaping technical direction and elevating team capabilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

About the company

april is an embedded, year-round tax platform that provides white-labeled tools to power smarter financial decisions. The company uses an AI-powered tax engine and API-first infrastructure to deliver real-time tax intelligence.