Staff Software Engineer, Dynamics & AI Platform

BDO USA; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on development for Tax products and platforms, including AI-enabled solutions. You will design scalable services, drive engineering standards, and partner with product, design, QA, and DevOps to deliver reliable capabilities.

You will build AI-enabled features with governance and safety controls, mentor engineers, and help optimize delivery through Lean practices, observability, and automation.

Qualifications

• Ten (10) or more years of progressive software engineering experience delivering enterprise software.
• Five (5) or more years building and maintaining production-grade services and APIs using C#/.NET or Java.
• Three (3) or more years providing technical leadership through design/code reviews and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of software features and platform capabilities for tax products.
• Provide technical direction on architecture, scalability, and reliability of services and APIs.
• Develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs with modern practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile engineering practices

CI/CD

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM/Finance/Accounting

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Microsoft SQL Server

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

BDO USA seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on development for Tax products and platforms, including AI-enabled solutions. You will design scalable services, drive engineering standards, and partner with product, design, QA, and DevOps to deliver reliable capabilities.

You will build AI-enabled features with governance and safety controls, mentor engineers, and help optimize delivery through Lean practices, observability, and automation.