Lead Application & Product Architect (Tax)

TL;DR

Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax: Defining and driving product and platform architecture for Tax services, with a focus on event driven and workflow orchestrated designs. Focus on code quality, testability, security posture, and performance.

Location: Hybrid (8 days/month) in Coppell, TX, USA

Salary: $107,500.00 - $188,400.00 USD

Company

hirify.global Tax & Accounting creates solutions to optimize your entire firm with industry-leading integration and innovations to transform your tax, accounting, audit, firm operations, and research workflows.

What you will do

• Define and drive product and platform architecture for Tax services, focusing on event-driven and workflow-orchestrated designs.
• Review and guide .NET application code and solution designs (.NET 6/8, ASP.NET Core), elevating code quality, testability, security posture, and performance.
• Lead migration/modernization efforts (modularization, API first, messaging, caching strategies).
• Ensure threat modeling and Security Review / SRTM artifacts are produced and signed off.
• Translate complex design tradeoffs into concise executive communication and product decisioning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in architecture for SaaS products; prior lead/principal scope in complex distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on depth with .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, API design), code review, refactoring, and performance profiling.
• Practical experience with Kafka (Confluent preferred).
• Practical experience with Temporal (or equivalent workflow engines) for long running orchestrations and reliability patterns.
• Excellent written & verbal communication—able to dive deep with engineers and rise above for leadership alignment.

Nice to have

• Experience in Tax or adjacent accounting domains; familiarity with compliance, data lineage, and auditability concerns reflected in TAA programs.
• Hands on with cloud services (Azure/AWS), container platforms, CI/CD, IaC, secrets/identity, and API gateways.
• Experience leading ARC/ARB reviews and promoting reusable assets per Architecture CoE.
• Familiarity with application security practices (OWASP, STRIDE, SAST/DAST), and our internal SRTM/reporting requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life.
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
• 401(k), FSA/HSA
• Commuter Benefits
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave.