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Its platform helps CPA firms automate client data collection, document workflows, tax preparation, and delivery.\nThe company has strong product-market fit and is scaling quickly. This role focuses on turning validated product ideas into secure, reliable, production-ready software.\nWhat is a Readiness Engineer?\nSoraban separates product development into two complementary roles:\nDiscovery Engineers prototype, test, and validate new ideas.\n\nReadiness Engineers turn those validated ideas into scalable production systems.\n\nYou will own the architecture, data models, performance, security, reliability, and product polish required to make those systems work for real customers at scale.\nThis is not maintenance work. It is the engineering discipline that turns a working prototype into a dependable product.\nWhat You'll Work On:\nProductionize new products\nTake working MVPs and build the production version.\nYou will focus on:\nApplication architecture\nData modeling\nAPIs and backend services\nBackground jobs and asynchronous workflows\nQuery and database performance\nTesting, monitoring, and failure handling\nBuild for tax-season scale - Usage spikes heavily during tax season, so the systems you build need to perform under pressure\nYou will work on:\nPerformance optimization\nQueues and background processing\nCaching\nDatabase scalability\nReliability and recovery\nMonitoring and observability\nBuild security into the product -Soraban handles sensitive taxpayer and financial data, so security is a core engineering requirement.\nYou will help establish strong patterns around:\nAuthentication and authorization\nInput validation\nPII and sensitive-data handling\nSecure data access\nAudit-friendly system design\nOwn the full product experience\nYou will also refine React / Next.js experiences to make them polished and trustworthy, including:\nLoading and error states\nResponsive behavior\nAccessibility\nWorkflow edge cases\nUser interactions\nWhat We're Looking For\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience\nStrong backend and systems engineering fundamentals\nExperience designing data models and application architecture\nStrong understanding of query performance, background processing, caching, and scalability\nExperience building and supporting production software\nSecurity-minded engineering habits\nAbility to work across backend and frontend systems\nStrong communication and collaboration skills\nAbility to ramp quickly in an existing production codebase\nTech stack: Ruby on Rails, React, and Next.js. Exact language and framework experience is less important than strong engineering judgment.\nNice to Have\nB2B SaaS, fintech, tax, or accounting software experience\nExperience handling sensitive financial or personal data\nSOC 2 or compliance-related engineering experience\nExperience with high-volume or seasonal traffic\nExperience rebuilding or replatforming early-stage products\nRuby on Rails\nReact / Next.js\nWho Thrives Here\nYou will likely enjoy this role if you naturally notice and fix things like:\nWeak data models\nMissing indexes\nN+1 queries\nSlow APIs\nBrittle background jobs\nPoor error handling\nSecurity gaps\nUX that technically works but does not feel finished\nYou like taking something that works and making it faster, safer, more scalable, and more polished.\nWhy This Role Matters - The systems you build will directly influence:\nHow quickly Soraban can launch new products\nHow many CPA firms the platform can support\nHow reliably the product performs during tax season\nHow securely customer data is handled\nHow effectively the engineering team can build on the platform\nHow much trust customers place in Soraban's AI-powered workflows\nThis is a high-ownership role on a small engineering team. 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