Full-Stack Readiness Software Engineer - Build AI products that are ready to scale!

Soraban is a Series A company building the AI operating layer for tax preparation. Its platform helps CPA firms automate client data collection, document workflows, tax preparation, and delivery.

The company has strong product-market fit and is scaling quickly. This role focuses on turning validated product ideas into secure, reliable, production-ready software.

What is a Readiness Engineer?

Soraban separates product development into two complementary roles:

Discovery Engineers prototype, test, and validate new ideas.
Readiness Engineers turn those validated ideas into scalable production systems.

You will own the architecture, data models, performance, security, reliability, and product polish required to make those systems work for real customers at scale.

This is not maintenance work. It is the engineering discipline that turns a working prototype into a dependable product.

What You'll Work On:

Productionize new products

Take working MVPs and build the production version.

You will focus on:

Application architecture
Data modeling
APIs and backend services
Background jobs and asynchronous workflows
Query and database performance
Testing, monitoring, and failure handling

Build for tax-season scale - Usage spikes heavily during tax season, so the systems you build need to perform under pressure

You will work on:

Performance optimization
Queues and background processing
Caching
Database scalability
Reliability and recovery
Monitoring and observability

Build security into the product -Soraban handles sensitive taxpayer and financial data, so security is a core engineering requirement.

You will help establish strong patterns around:

Authentication and authorization
Input validation
PII and sensitive-data handling
Secure data access
Audit-friendly system design

Own the full product experience

You will also refine React / Next.js experiences to make them polished and trustworthy, including:

Loading and error states
Responsive behavior
Accessibility
Workflow edge cases
User interactions

What We're Looking For

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals
Experience designing data models and application architecture
Strong understanding of query performance, background processing, caching, and scalability
Experience building and supporting production software
Security-minded engineering habits
Ability to work across backend and frontend systems
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Ability to ramp quickly in an existing production codebase

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, React, and Next.js. Exact language and framework experience is less important than strong engineering judgment.

Nice to Have

B2B SaaS, fintech, tax, or accounting software experience
Experience handling sensitive financial or personal data
SOC 2 or compliance-related engineering experience
Experience with high-volume or seasonal traffic
Experience rebuilding or replatforming early-stage products
Ruby on Rails
React / Next.js

Who Thrives Here

You will likely enjoy this role if you naturally notice and fix things like:

Weak data models
Missing indexes
N+1 queries
Slow APIs
Brittle background jobs
Poor error handling
Security gaps
UX that technically works but does not feel finished

You like taking something that works and making it faster, safer, more scalable, and more polished.

Why This Role Matters - The systems you build will directly influence:

How quickly Soraban can launch new products
How many CPA firms the platform can support
How reliably the product performs during tax season
How securely customer data is handled
How effectively the engineering team can build on the platform
How much trust customers place in Soraban's AI-powered workflows

This is a high-ownership role on a small engineering team. The technical decisions you make will become part of the foundation the company scales on.

Why Join Now

Soraban is moving from product-market fit into scale.

You will join early enough to shape the architecture, engineering standards, and product foundation rather than simply maintain systems built by someone else.

For engineers who enjoy ownership, production craftsmanship, and building durable systems in a fast-moving startup, this role offers meaningful scope and impact.

Our values describe how decisions get made:

Mission focused: The mission is our north star. We stay focused on what moves it forward and tune out the noise.
Default to action: Move quickly and iterate. Progress over perfection. Learn by shipping.
Solve with data: Instinct gets us asking the right questions — data gets us to the right answer.
Automate first: Automate the repetitive work so we can focus where we add the most value. (This role is this value).

Logistics:

Full-time, in-office in Chandler, AZ (5 days in office)
Health, dental, and vision coverage
401(k)
Equity Package
Paid time off

Description

Skills

Full Stack Software Developer

Full-Stack Software Engineer - Readiness

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