Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Technical Staff Engineer designing scalable systems for tax platform at april. Leading engineering initiatives to enhance user experience for millions of users.
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 For
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
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