Taxwell · 5 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expTaxwell is a company dedicated to helping everyday Americans maximize their tax advantages through innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead critical initiatives in pre-auth, authentication, and customer experience, driving both technical strategy and AI integration.
Enterprise SoftwareSoftwareTax Preparation
Responsibilities
Lead architecture, design, and delivery of key platform capabilities within our pre-auth, authentication, and early customer experience surfaces
Drive consistency and quality across services, UIs, and shared layers by shaping engineering standards and championing best practices
Collaborate with product and design to turn customer and business problems into elegant, scalable, and maintainable solutions
Evaluate and prototype new technologies—including AI-assisted tooling—to solve complex engineering challenges
Tackle foundational initiatives like migrating our entire authentication stack to a new provider, or identifying and rewriting underperforming pre-auth surfaces to significantly improve Lighthouse scores and perceived performance
Act as a technical lead for high-impact initiatives that span multiple teams and disciplines—working from first principles to define, scope, and solve ambiguous business problems
Balance strategic thinking with deep implementation—you’ll often be the first to prototype a solution or dig into a legacy system to find the real root cause
Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering managers and senior ICs, providing mentorship and reviewing critical designs and code
Partner with DevOps, QA, and security teams to ensure performance, observability, and reliability are first-class concerns
Model effective use of AI-powered development tools for tasks like code generation, testing, documentation, and research
Help teams adopt AI thoughtfully, balancing productivity gains with quality, clarity, and team learning
Contribute to Taxwell’s internal AI practices by piloting new tools, providing feedback, and guiding platform-level adoption
Qualification
Required
10+ years in software engineering, with deep experience delivering and operating web applications at scale
Proven track record of leading large technical initiatives across multiple teams, especially in customer-facing or platform-critical areas
Comfortable operating across functions—engineering, product, and design—to shape solutions that align technical goals with user and business needs
Significant production experience with Vue.js and C#/.NET—our primary frontend and backend technologies
Deep experience with AWS (e.g., compute, storage, messaging, infrastructure-as-code)
Proficiency with Kubernetes—you've deployed and debugged containerized applications in production environments
You write production-grade code regularly and effectively—whether shipping new features, modernizing legacy services, or building shared tooling
Strong grasp of architectural patterns: REST APIs, service decomposition, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD, observability, and secure development
You treat business outcomes as your scope. You define problems and lead others through solving them
Exceptional communicator with the ability to explain complex topics clearly and adjust to different audiences (technical and non-technical)
Hands-on, pragmatic, and proactive. You seek out ambiguity and move teams forward with clarity and momentum
Committed to the success of your peers—through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and fostering a high-trust engineering culture
Preferred
Experience in domains like authentication, onboarding, or identity management is a strong plus
Experience with related tools (e.g., React, Angular, Java, Go) is welcome—but you must be comfortable learning and contributing in Vue.js and .NET environments
Experience building or integrating AI-assisted development workflows
Experience in highly regulated domains (e.g., tax, fintech, healthcare)
Company
Taxwell
Taxwell is a digital tax filing platform that offers tax preparation software solutions.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase