Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform
United StatesBackend EngineeringRemote5+ YOE
Summary
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.
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
GolangTemporalRedpandagRPCKubernetesDockerTerraformAWSPrometheusGrafana