Technical Staff Engineer designing scalable systems for tax platform at april. Leading engineering initiatives to enhance user experience for millions of users.
Responsibilities
Critical, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to development and deployment, ensuring quality and scalability.
Participate in technical decision-making and knowledge sharing across multiple teams.
Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless and data-driven experiences.
Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence.
Guide by example - service ownership, observability, and operational best practices across the engineering organization.
Promote a culture of high standards, clean code, testing, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 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 - capable of balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and developer experience.
Track record of shaping technical direction and elevating team capabilities.
Passion for building high-impact, customer-facing products that are data-rich and intuitive.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority.
Bonus Points For
Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
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