USAFull-Stack "Readiness" Software Engineer
2 нед. назад
160k–215k USD / yearUSASenior
architecturedata modelingscalabilityperformance optimization
The role focuses on building scalable, performant, and secure software by turning validated prototypes into production-ready systems.
Обязанности
- Productionize validated prototypes. Take working v1s and design artifacts from Discovery Engineers and build the production version: architecture, data models, and implementation that will hold up under growth
- Own performance and scale. Our traffic is intensely seasonal — tax season is our Super Bowl, and it lasts four months. Systems you build need to hold up when every firm hits crunch at once
- Make security a property, not a patch. We handle sensitive taxpayer data for CPA firms, and security is a first-class engineering requirement here — you'll build it in from the data model up
- Set the technical bar. Your architectural decisions, data modeling, and code become the foundation other engineers build on. The patterns you establish compound
- Polish the front-end until it feels finished. Prototypes prove the idea; you'll refine the React/Next implementation until the details hold up — responsive edge cases, loading and error states, accessibility, and the small interactions that separate "works" from "feels professional"
Требования
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong systems judgment — data modeling, query performance, background processing, caching, and the architecture instincts that come from having scaled real products (our stack is Ruby on Rails with React/Next)
- Security-minded engineering habits — you think about authorization, input validation, and data exposure by default, not as an afterthought
- The temperament for this role: you genuinely enjoy hardening, refining, and finishing — depth over novelty
- Strong collaboration instincts — this role lives at a handoff boundary, and making that boundary work takes clear communication, not just clean code
- A fast ramp. You'll join a mature codebase with real users, and we expect (and support) senior engineers contributing meaningful work within their first few weeks — not after a quarter of onboarding
Будет плюсом
- B2B SaaS or fintech background — especially products handling sensitive data
- Experience with compliance-adjacent engineering (SOC 2 environments, audit-friendly design, PII handling)
- Experience with seasonal or spiky-traffic systems
- History of successfully rebuilding or replatforming systems that started as prototypes
Другое
- is a Series A startup automating the most painful parts of tax season for CPA firms. Our platform handles client data collection, document delivery, and tax workflow automation for firms across the country — and we're growing fast. We're a small, fast-moving engineering team where everyone ships, everyone owns what they build, and there's no committee between a good idea and production.
- Most engineering teams ask every engineer to be two people at once: the fast-moving explorer who figures out what to build, and the systems thinker who makes it scale, perform, and survive contact with real users. We've split those into two roles.
- Discovery Engineers figure out what to ship — they prototype fast, validate with users, and prove out product ideas. Readiness Engineers — this role — take those validated prototypes and make them real: the right architecture, the right data models, performant, scalable, and secure. Depending on the project, that means taking a clean handoff and rebuilding from the ground up, pairing with a Discovery Engineer through the transition, or working embedded alongside them from early on.
- If you're the engineer who's mildly offended by a missing index, an N+1 query, or an unvalidated input — the one who finds genuine satisfaction in taking something that works and making it something that lasts — this role was designed for you. This isn't cleanup work. It's the craft half of product engineering, given the focus and respect it rarely gets.
- Our values aren't wall art. They describe how decisions actually get made here:
- Mission focused: The mission is our north star. We stay focused on what moves it forward and tune out the noise.
- Default to action: Move quickly and iterate. Progress over perfection. Learn by shipping.
- Solve with data: Instinct gets us asking the right questions — data gets us to the right answer.
- Automate first: Automate the repetitive work so we can focus where we add the most value. (This role is this value.)
- A role designed around a real specialty. Most companies treat production engineering as what happens after the interesting work. We made it the job — with the autonomy and scope to do it right
- Ownership from day one. Small team, no layers. The systems you build ship to real firms, and you'll see the impact directly
- Series A momentum. We've found product-market fit with CPA firms and are scaling. Joining now means growing with the company, not maintaining someone else's decisions
- In-person team in Chandler. We work together in the office — fast feedback loops, real whiteboards, no meeting-scheduling purgatory
- Full-time, in-office in Chandler, AZ
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Paid time off