Staff Engineer, Director – Records & Tax Platforms

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Avenu Insights & Analytics

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1978

🏛️ Government

📋 Compliance

☁️ SaaS

Government • Compliance • SaaS

Avenu Insights & Analytics is a firm dedicated to enhancing revenue recovery and compliance for state and local governments. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services and software solutions aimed at maximizing transparency and operational efficiency while helping taxpayers meet their obligations. With expertise in compliance auditing, digital transformation, and public records management, Avenu collaborates with government entities to identify new revenue opportunities and optimize citizen services.

📋 Description

• Own the target architecture for the Records and Tax platforms, including shared services, data models, and infrastructure • Lead design reviews and establish expectations for design documentation • Drive multi-quarter modernization work, decomposing legacy components, defining service boundaries, and sequencing disruption-free migrations • Make and document build, buy, and refactor decisions • Define and evolve engineering standards for code quality, testing, API design, data modeling, observability, deployment, and technical documentation • Implement standards through tooling, automated checks, templates, and paved paths • Improve code review and technical decision-making through direct participation and coaching senior engineers • Set availability, latency, and durability targets, including SLOs and error budgets • Lead architecture for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and data integrity • Plan capacity for seasonal tax filing, recording volume, and reconciliation loads • Own performance engineering, including load testing, profiling, query optimization, and production instrumentation • Lead or advise on major incident response and post-incident reviews • Partner with Security and Compliance on access control, auditability, retention, redaction, and payment-adjacent controls • Mentor senior and staff-track engineers and grow technical depth across both platforms • Translate technical risk for executive audiences • Represent engineering in agency customer conversations when technical credibility is needed

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years building and operating production software, including significant time at staff/principal level or equivalent scope • Demonstrated ownership of architecture for large, multi-team, multi-service systems and evidence those systems held up over time • Deep experience with distributed systems, data modeling, and relational databases at scale, including migrations of live data with no tolerance for loss • Track record of establishing engineering standards that teams adopted • Experience with resiliency and performance, including SLOs, capacity planning, failure-mode analysis, observability, and incident command • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and modern delivery practices, including IaC, CI/CD, and progressive rollout • Exceptional written communication, including design documents, RFCs, and architectural decision records • Ability to lead through influence without formal authority • Proven effectiveness in a remote, distributed engineering organization • Nice to have: experience in government technology, regtech, fintech, payments, or another regulated domain • Nice to have: experience with tax calculation, billing, or financial reconciliation systems • Nice to have: experience with document management, content-heavy systems, or search at scale • Nice to have: history of incrementally modernizing legacy platforms while keeping them running • Nice to have: familiarity with StateRAMP, FedRAMP, SOC 2, CJIS, or PCI DSS

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits and compensation package • Fully remote work arrangement