Canopytax Senior Full Stack Engineer at Canopy building and improving a practice management platform for accounting firms. Design and implement REST APIs and microservices, and build user-facing experiences using modern technologies.
Responsibilities
Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS startup in Draper, Utah building simple, efficient software for accounting firms. We are looking to revolutionize the accounting space with modern, user-friendly software for a neglected industry. We place strong emphasis on delighting our customers, spotting and solving problems, and being good people along the way.
We're hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help make our world-class practice management platform for accounting professionals even better. You'll work on a highly collaborative squad alongside other engineers, a product manager, UX designer, and QA engineer, with the autonomy to research, hypothesize, build, test, and iterate on the best solutions for our customers. Our microservices backend and micro-frontend architecture support independent deployments, letting our teams ship to production multiple times a day. If you want to have a meaningful impact at a company that means "agile" when we say it, we'd love to hear from you.
This role is remote eligible for candidates who currently reside in Utah.
Partner with your PM, UX designer, fellow engineers, QA, and customers to define and validate new features end-to-end
Design and implement REST API endpoints and microservices using Python with FastAPI or Java or Kotlin with Vert.x, backed by PostgreSQL
Help build user-facing experiences in JavaScript/TypeScript and React that delight our customers
Write unit tests, participate in code reviews, and help maintain quality across the codebase
Own builds and deployments to staging and production using Docker, GitLab, and Kubernetes
Identify, prioritize, and resolve bugs and technical debt across the stack
Share what you learn through mentoring, trainings, and interviewing future teammates
Contribute to effective AI driven engineering tooling that improves quality and efficiency for every engineer
Qualification
Strong proficiency with SQLFamiliarity with modern toolingWhy You Want to Work Here
Required
5+ years of professional software development experience, with meaningful exposure to both frontend and backend work (we don't expect equal depth in both)
Strong proficiency in at least one of the following backend languages (Python, Java, or Kotlin) and RESTful API design
Strong proficiency with SQL
Experience with JavaScript/React or a similar modern framework
Familiarity with modern tooling: TypeScript, Git, and testing frameworks for both front end and back end code
Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants like Claude Code or Cursor, an eagerness to adopt the latest advancements and best practices, and the judgment to steer AI toward high-quality code you fully understand and can stand behind
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate well with both technical and non-technical teammates
A passion for building scalable solutions that have real customer impact
Preferred
Proficiency with microservices architecture or micro-frontend infrastructure
Experience with observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing)
Hands-on experience building features that integrate LLMs or AI capabilities into a product
We know many women do not apply for a job if they don't perfectly fit the description. We want you to apply anyway.
Why You Want to Work Here
🌴 Flexible Paid Time Off - you’re actually encouraged to use, plus 10 company holidays!
❤️🩹 Health Benefits - including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match.
💰 401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.
