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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 • 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) 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.

About the role april is looking for a brilliant, curious and creative Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a passion for data that’s ready to take on a huge opportunity to solve tax, and save people time and money. If you’re all that and looking to lead, invent, and grow professionally you should definitely consider applying to join us on our journey. Key responsibilities • Lead and own full-cycle (from idea to production) projects that are directly used by and impact millions of people • Work closely with the product & UX to define product requirements and execute the development plans • Design system architectures, select/ evaluate tools • Build cloud-native microservices • Mentor, and grow the team, our practices, and our technology stack Experience • 6+ years of software engineering experience building production-level web applications in large-scale products • 6+ years of experience with modern full-stack frameworks React/Angular/Vue or equivalent programming language, developing high-scale applications • 4+ years of experience building reactive web & mobile-web frontends using React/Next/Angular/Vue over TypeScript/JavaScript • 4+ years of experience with Python as a proper microservice backend • Passion for clean code and agile work • Experience with modern cloud environments (GCP, AWS) • Strong architecture skills – ability to design for scale, and velocity, robustness, and readability of end-to-end data-driven solutions • Passion for data, customer experience, and building high-quality software • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written • Bonus: gRPC, protobuf 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.

About the role We’re looking for a Hands-on AI & Data Engineering Manager to lead a team building intelligent, large-scale consumer experiences powered by AI. In this role, you will lead engineers developing AI-driven products, work closely with data scientists, product managers, and designers, and ensure that AI capabilities—from LLMs and agents to product data insights—are translated into reliable, scalable production systems. You will be responsible not only for delivering AI features, but also for analyzing product data and user behavior to continuously improve AI performance and product outcomes. This is a technical leadership role combining engineering management, architecture ownership, AI product development, and data-driven decision making. Key responsibilities • Lead a team of data scientists, data engineers and product analysts • Own the delivery of AI-powered product capabilities, from research and experimentation to production and operation • Drive excellence, code quality, and best development practices • Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance for complex AI systems • Drive the integration of LLMs, AI agents, and intelligent workflows into core consumer experiences • Ensure AI solutions are safe, scalable, observable, and continuously improving • Lead initiatives around product data analysis and experimentation • Analyze user interactions with product features to improve accuracy, UX, and business impact • Partner with product teams to define metrics, dashboards, and experiments that guide product improvements • Design system architectures for AI-enabled applications at scale • Evaluate and select technologies for AI platforms and data pipelines • Guide the development of prompt engineering frameworks and centralized prompt management • Ensure robust monitoring, evaluation, and feedback loops for AI outputs • Translate product and business goals into technical roadmaps and execution plans • Drive alignment between AI capabilities and measurable product outcomes Requirements • 6+ years of software engineering experience building production-level systems. • 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience. • Strong experience building large-scale backend systems in Python. • Experience developing modern web applications using frameworks such as React / Next / Angular / Vue. • Experience deploying and operating LLM-based systems in production, including evaluation and iteration. • Strong understanding of data pipelines, experimentation, and product analytics. • Experience with modern cloud environments such as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services. • Passion for clean code, scalable architectures, and data-driven product development. • Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and vector databases. • Experience building AI agents or autonomous workflows Nice to Have • Experience with frameworks such as ADK, A2A, LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex or equivalent • Experience with gRPC and protobuf-based architectures • Experience building MCP servers • Background in data engineering, experimentation platforms, or ML infrastructure 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.

About the role As april's SRE / DevOps Lead, you'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure that powers our platform — a system trusted by leading wealth managers, banks, and consumer fintechs to handle some of the most sensitive financial data their users have. You'll work HO (80%) and lead a team of 1 SRE and 1 ITSecOps (20%) and partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners to make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect. This is a hands-on lead role. You'll set the technical direction for our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, observability, and on-call practices — and you'll write the code, configs, and runbooks that get us there. You'll also own april's IT function (identity, endpoints, SaaS) at a tighter scope, keeping the company secure and productive as we grow. What you'll do • Lead and grow a team of 1 SRE and 1 ITSecOps, setting direction across SRE, DevOps, and IT • Own the architecture, performance, and reliability of april's GCP-based platform — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and scale • Define and uphold our SLOs, infra budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practice • Build and operate our observability stack so engineers can find and fix problems before customers feel them • Partner with engineering and security on the controls, evidence, and audits that keep us SOC 2, SOC1 and STIG compliant and IRS-authorized • Plan and execute capacity, load testing, and game days for tax season — the highest-stakes window of our year • Own corporate IT: identity (Okta), Google Workspace, endpoint management (Jamf / Kandji), and the SaaS stack used across the company • Set the standard for how we ship: fast, safe, observable, and reversible What you'll bring • 6+ years of SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering experience, including 1y+ leading or managing engineers • Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP — Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at real scale, not just consumed off-the-shelf • Strong programming or scripting fundamentals (Go, Python, or similar) and a track record of automating processes • Experience operating in a SOC 2 environment and supporting external audits; comfort working alongside compliance and security partners • Experience with regulated workloads (IRS, financial services, healthcare, or similar) — or a clear, demonstrated desire to go deep on what that means • Strong observability instincts: you've built dashboards, alerts, and SLOs in Datadog (or equivalent) that engineers actually rely on • Calm, clear leadership during incidents — and a coaching mindset for your team between them • Clear written and spoken English; comfortable collaborating with our NYC team across time zones Bonus points • IRS e-file ecosystem, FTI handling, or fintech-grade data residency experience. • Experience preparing infrastructure for a certification milestone (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC1, STIG). • FinOps / cloud cost management experience. • Database operations at scale (Postgres, Spanner, or similar). • Experience standing up or scaling an IT function at a high-growth startup. • 3+ years of experience as a software engineer - Advantage! How we work • Mission first. Every decision ties back to building a smarter, simpler tax experience. • Team over ego. We value contribution over credit and bring others along. • Win with determination. We pursue outcomes others assume are impossible — and we iterate until we get there. 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.