Staff Software Engineer, Tax Product Development

Job Summary:

The Staff Software Engineer provides technical leadership and hands-on software development for BDO Tax products and platforms, including AI-enabled solutions supporting Partnership, Direct Tax (Business Tax), Indirect Tax, and Dynamics/ERP integrations. This role designs, builds, and maintains scalable services and user experiences, establishes engineering standards, and drives delivery excellence through Agile and Lean practices. Responsibilities include solution architecture, secure coding, code reviews, CI/CD enablement, staffing, and operational readiness through observability and automation. The position partners with product, design, QA, and DevOps to define technical roadmaps, reduce cycle time, and improve reliability. The role supports responsible AI-enabled software development, including LLM-based capabilities and agent workflows, with governance-aligned evaluation, safety considerations, and data protection controls.

Job Duties:

•    Leads the design and implementation of software features and platform capabilities for BDO Tax products, including integration patterns for Dynamics/ERP/3rd party tax and accounting systems
•    Provides technical direction on architecture, code structure, scalability, and reliability for services, APIs, and user-facing applications
•    Develops and maintains backend services and REST APIs using modern engineering practices, including versioning, backward compatibility, and resilience patterns
•    Develops and maintains UI components and workflows aligned to product requirements and accessibility standards
•    Builds AI-enabled product capabilities using approved platforms and patterns, including LLM-based features and agent workflows, while adhering to responsible AI standards and governance controls
•    Establishes and enforces engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and reference implementations
•    Embeds themselves within agile teams to refine requirements, define technical approaches, estimate work, and deliver incrementally using Lean principles
•    Improves developer productivity by creating reusable libraries, templates, and internal tooling
•    Implements automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and partner with QA to ensure comprehensive coverage
•    Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines and release automation with quality gates, security scanning, and environment promotion controls
•    Implements observability standards including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable alerting for production support
•    Performs performance and reliability engineering activities including profiling, capacity planning inputs, and incident root cause analysis
•    Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:
•    Mentors engineers through pairing, technical coaching, and feedback on design and implementation quality
•    Acts as a direct supervisor to team members, as assigned
•    Acts as a Career Advisor to team members, as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:
·    High school diploma, GED, or equivalent, required
·    Bachelor's degree, with a focus in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), Finance, or Accounting, preferred

Experience:
·    Ten (10) or more years of progressive software engineering experience delivering enterprise software products, required
·    Five (5) or more years of building and maintaining production-grade services and APIs using C#/.NET or Java, required
·    Three (3) or more years of providing technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards, preferred
·    Three (3) or more years of delivering solutions using Agile delivery methods with applied Lean principles and continuous improvement practices, preferred
·    Three (3) or more years of building CI/CD pipelines and release automation supporting frequent deployments, preferred
·    Two (2) or more years of developing AI-enabled software solutions using LLMs and agentic workflows, including evaluation methods and governance-aligned safety controls, preferred
·    Experience integrating with enterprise platforms and business systems, including Dynamics/ERP integrations. preferred
·    Experience delivering tax