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title: 'Staff Full-Stack Engineer at april'
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# Staff Full-Stack Engineer at april

- **Company:** april
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/april/204a0700-479c-4572-9fd8-b4b7c838aac4/application

**Skills:** Distributed systems, Cloud-native environments, GCP, AWS, Microservices, Event-driven architectures, REST APIs, gRPC, React, Vue, Angular, System design, Architecture, Protocol Buffers, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as code, Terraform, Kubernetes

> Design and build scalable, distributed systems and tools to enable teams to deliver exceptional user experiences. The role involves leading technical decision-making, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and promoting high standards of code quality and operational best practices.

## Job description

## About the Role

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.

## Responsibilities

- 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

## Requirements

- 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

Bonus Points

- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

## About april

april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every paycheck, equity transaction, or income shift, and stay on top of tax payments throughout the year. Built to handle even the most complex tax situations, april’s AI-powered tax engine ingests data directly from partner apps to deliver accurate outcomes in record time—making tax planning and filing more connected, contextual, and accessible than ever. With API-first infrastructure and seamless data integrations, april helps partners deliver more value, deepen loyalty, and turn taxes into a strategic edge—for their clients and their business.

## About april

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: april is an AI-powered embedded tax platform that enables financial institutions to offer white-label tax filing, planning, and transcript retrieval directly within their products.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $78M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Poland; Colombia)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ben Borodach (CEO) and Daniel Marcous (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Financial Services / Fintech – Embedded tax technology
- **Target Customers**: B2B – banks, wealth management platforms, payroll & benefits providers, fintechs, and developer platforms
- **Mission**: Build the world's most connected tax software, evolving tax from a backward-looking compliance function into a predictive, continuous layer of financial intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Tax Filing Suite**: White-label DIY filing, tax pro reviews, and pro-led filing – the first AI-powered tax platform to receive full IRS e-file authorization in 15 years.
- **Tax Planning Suite**: “What-if” forecasting for paycheck optimization, liquidity events, and annual planning, integrated at the point of decision.
- **Tax Transcripts**: Accelerate client onboarding by providing advisors and platforms access to comprehensive historical tax data and insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $78M; Annual Revenue $1.2M (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors**: QED Investors (lead Series B), Treasury (lead Series A), Team8 (lead Seed). Advisors include founders of Acorns, eToro, Lemonade, Betterment, and former CEO of Bank Leumi.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 78 employees (+48.5% YoY); 11 active job postings; presence across U.S., Israel, Poland, Colombia; Year-over-year LinkedIn follower growth of +146.2%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI-native tax**: The only AI-powered platform to gain IRS e-file authorization in 15 years (joining only 12 other providers nationwide).
- **Deeply embedded approach**: White-label APIs allow financial platforms to own every financial moment, increasing deposits, engagement, and loyalty.
- **World-class team pedigree**: Founders and executives from Google, Waze, TaxAct, PayPal, and Deloitte; strong talent pipeline from Intuit, Gusto, Amazon, and Israeli Military Intelligence.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale embedded partnerships with wealth, banking, and payroll platforms to grow revenue and user base.
- Expand product suite beyond filing into year-round tax intelligence (forecasting, transcripts).
- Dominate the “tax as a service” category by making tax a connected, continuous financial layer.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven (“Mission first, Team over ego, Win with determination”); collaborative, low-politics environment.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company with 48% headcount growth and significant funding runway – opportunity to shape a category-defining product.
- **Team**: High-caliber peers from top tech and fintech companies; hands-on leadership that sets a high bar.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence in New York and Tel Aviv; remote flexibility for some roles; strong engineering and data science emphasis (Staff, Senior, AI roles open).
- **Perks**: Not explicitly stated, but the careers page highlights meaningful work, ownership, and a solution-first mindset.

## Sources
1. [getapril.com](https://www.getapril.com/careers)
2. [getapril.com](https://www.getapril.com/about)
3. [getapril.com](https://www.getapril.com/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/apriltax)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/april/__9uA1-QhkLWRqyFTSN_4eBOTRzLNVNbfFWoVJ-3jjdRI)

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