Full-Stack "Readiness" Software Engineer

• 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