Staff Full-Stack Engineer, April
$220-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
AI-driven tax software
Be an early applicant
AI-driven tax software
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To use smarter tax tech, to go beyond the idea of financial wellness — and help every taxpayer achieve financial greatness.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Managing tax payments is a highly stressful and time-consuming process, with taxpayers having to track their earnings and calculate claimable expenditures, whilst navigating convoluted tax codes. Whilst tax-paying software makes this process easier, they still require manual data entry and tax code lookups, preventing the tools from being automated.
April provides an all-in-one platform for automated tax filing, aiming to streamline tax preparation, maximize tax refunds, and ensure seamless and on-time returns for its users. The company achieves this by integrating its software tools directly within the financial applications of its users, tracking their earnings and expenditures, learning individual tax scenarios, and ultimately ensuring that refunds are accurate.
Whilst competitors also deliver tools to make tax filing easier, April stands out with its approach to integrating within existing software, identifying the implications this has for automated data entry. The company is well-funded and has been investing in accelerating research and development as well as the expansion of its operations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$38m
SERIES B
Jun 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78m
Company benefits
- Equitable opportunities for everyone: Own your future. You grow as the company grows - professionally and financially
- Fairness for parents: Don't sacrifice family for career (or vice versa). Our parental leave is top in the field
- Flexible time off: With our unlimited PTO policy you can take time off for vacations, celebrations, or a much needed day of relaxation
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Borodach
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as a Management Consultant for Deloitte. Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations at Team8 from 2017 to 2021.
Daniel Marcous
(Co-Founder & CTO)Member of Ximus, and sits on the Board at Datahack. Experience working with big data for Mamram. CTO for Google's Waze from 2014 to 2021.
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