Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: New York City

Compensation: $220K – $240K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

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. Team members residing within the New York City metropolitan area must maintain a minimum on-site presence of three days per week.

Key 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

• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

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.