Staff Software Engineer - Accounting

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Requirements:

• Understanding of core accounting standards and concepts, including GAAP, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable.
• Experience with accounting applications such as Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Xero, or Sage.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent technical organization and planning skills.
• Ability to perform technical responsibilities remotely in a mostly asynchronous environment.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• 8+ years of professional programming experience.
• Proven experience in system architecture, ensuring system scalability and performance.
• Experience with the Ruby language, Rails framework, or similar languages; modern JavaScript development is a plus.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Experience with source control, especially git.
• A service- and team-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Owning technical architecture discussions and leading technical decisions for our accounting product area.
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps.
• Provide technical mentorship for team members.
• Improve and maintain our Ruby on Rails applications.
• Improve and maintain our products through SQL code.
• Build new features within our flagship product, Axiom.
• With Product Management, participate in the development of new features and platform improvements.
• Enable other product areas to leverage our accounting platform.
• Expand our internal tools to automate and improve workflows.
• Assist in documenting Finance team systems and tools.
• Integrate Veracross with third-party systems used by private K-12 schools.