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Job overview
April is hiring a Staff Full-Stack Engineer. April is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to help shape the future of their platform and accelerate their mission to simplify taxes for everyone. This role involves designing and building scalable systems and tools to enable teams to deliver exceptional user experiences. The ideal candidate is passionate about technical leadership, enjoys solving complex architectural challenges, and wants to make a meaningful impact on millions of users.
Key focus areas include 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, and Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless and data-driven experiences.
Successful candidates bring 8+ Years Software Engineer Experience, 2+ Years Senior/Staff Role Experience, and Proven Distributed Systems Design. Important skills include System Design, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, REST APIs, gRPC APIs, and React. Preferred (not required): Protocol Buffers, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
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About the Role
april is looking for an exceptional, driven, and technically visionary Staff Full-Stack Engineer to help shape the future of our platform and accelerate our mission to simplify taxes for everyone. You’ll play a central role in designing and building scalable systems and tools that enable our teams to deliver exceptional user experiences with speed and confidence. If you're passionate about technical leadership, enjoy solving complex architectural challenges, and want to make a meaningful impact on millions of users, we’d love to have you join us.
Responsibilities
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Critical, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to development and deployment, ensuring quality and scalability
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Participate in technical decision-making and knowledge sharing across multiple teams
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Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless and data-driven experiences
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Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence
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Guide by example - service ownership, observability, and operational best practices across the engineering organization
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Promote a culture of high standards, clean code, testing, and continuous improvement
Requirements
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8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 2+ years as a senior, staff or principal-level role
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Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS)
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Deep expertise in backend technologies, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/gRPC APIs
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Strong hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and full-stack engineering practices
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Fluency in system design and architecture - capable of balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and developer experience
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Track record of shaping technical direction and elevating team capabilities
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Passion for building high-impact, customer-facing products that are data-rich and intuitive
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Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority
Bonus Points
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Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
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Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
About april
april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every paycheck, equity transaction, or income shift, and stay on top of tax payments throughout the year. Built to handle even the most complex tax situations, april’s AI-powered tax engine ingests data directly from partner apps to deliver accurate outcomes in record time—making tax planning and filing more connected, contextual, and accessible than ever. With API-first infrastructure and seamless data integrations, april helps partners deliver more value, deepen loyalty, and turn taxes into a strategic edge—for their clients and their business.
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