Senior Staff Engineer - Tax Platform Engineering

What you'll do

• Own technical strategy and roadmap; guide projects across teams and prioritize foundational architecture investments.
• Design, build, and test tax-compliance platform capabilities, improving scalability, reliability, and incident response.
• Build platform guardrails for compliant, accurate, and reliable agentic AI use; mentor engineers and improve team productivity.

What they ask for

• Experience designing and developing robust distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages.
• Experience influencing multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products.
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production-level code, including fault-tolerant, mission-critical software.
• Experience building products in highly regulated, high-risk domains; familiarity with current AI tools and their benefits and shortcomings.

Nice to have

• Experience in Payroll, Taxes, or Compliance.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React.

Pay

$189,000–$236,000 per year (base salary) in Denver and most remote locations; $223,000–$278,000 per year (base salary) in San Francisco and New York.

Tools

Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React, LLMs, Agents

AI focus

Build guardrails for safe, compliant, accurate, stable, and reliable agentic AI interaction with tax concepts; use AI tools in daily development to reduce cycle time; mentor engineers in AI usage and help develop AI strategy.