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AlpacaAlpacaUnited States

Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

Architects, builds, and scales mission-critical tax platform systems using Golang microservices, Temporal workflows, and Redpanda data pipelines to ensure compliance and accuracy in financial operations. Requires 5+ years experience with deep Golang and distributed systems expertise.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and secure microservices and data processing systems using idiomatic Golang.
  • Model complex, long-running tax reporting business logic as durable, stateful workflows using Temporal to ensure correctness and reliability.
  • Implement and optimize data pipelines consuming financial events from Redpanda, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and integrity.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of tax analysts, legal experts, and product managers to translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into robust, maintainable, and verifiable software solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, driving best practices in distributed system design, API definition with gRPC, code quality, and advanced testing strategies.
  • Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.
  • Own the full lifecycle of your services, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like Jenkins and Terraform), proactive monitoring, and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.

Must-Haves

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
  • Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Hands-on experience with Temporal or similar durable execution systems like Cadence or AWS Step Functions.
  • Experience with Redpanda or Apache Kafka, with a solid understanding of the Kafka protocol.
  • Production experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf).
  • Proficiency with AWS, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
  • Experience with modern observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing systems.
  • Prior experience in FinTech, RegTech, or another highly regulated industry with familiarity with financial data or compliance systems.

How We Take Care of You

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Skills

GoTemporalRedpandagRPCKubernetesDockerTerraformAWSPrometheusGrafana
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