Staff Software Engineer - Dynamics & AI-Powered Platforms

BDO USA

Richmond (VA)

Hybrid

USD 200,000 - 285,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

BDO USA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on development for Tax products and platforms, including AI-enabled solutions. The role involves architecture, backend/frontend work, CI/CD, observability, and governance for responsible AI.

You will collaborate with product, design, QA, and DevOps to deliver scalable services and reliable software in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

Ten (10) or more years of progressive software engineering experience delivering enterprise software products.
Five (5) or more years of building and maintaining production-grade services and APIs using C#/.NET or Java.
Three (3) or more years of providing technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards.
Three (3) or more years of delivering solutions using Agile delivery methods with applied Lean principles and continuous improvement practices.
Three (3) or more years of building CI/CD pipelines and release automation supporting frequent deployments.
Two (2) or more years of developing AI-enabled software solutions using LLMs and agentic workflows, including evaluation methods and governance-aligned safety controls.
Experience integrating with enterprise platforms and business systems, including Dynamics/ERP integrations.
Experience delivering tax domain platforms supporting Partnership, Direct Tax (Business Tax), or Indirect Tax,

Responsibilities

Leads the design and implementation of software features and platform capabilities for BDO Tax products, including integration patterns for Dynamics/ERP/3rd party tax and accounting systems
Provides technical direction on architecture, code structure, scalability, and reliability for services, APIs, and user-facing applications
Develops and maintains backend services and REST APIs using modern engineering practices, including versioning, backward compatibility, and resilience patterns
Develops and maintains UI components and workflows aligned to product requirements and accessibility standards
Builds AI-enabled product capabilities using approved platforms and patterns, including LLM-based features and agent workflows, while adhering to responsible AI standards and governance controls
Establishes and enforces engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and reference implementations
Embeds themselves within agile teams to refine requirements, define technical approaches, estimate work, and deliver incrementally using Lean principles
Improves developer productivity by creating reusable libraries, templates, and internal tooling
Implements automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and partner with QA to ensure comprehensive coverage
Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines and release automation with quality gates, security scanning, and environment promotion controls
Implements observability standards including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable alerting for production support
Performs performance and reliability engineering activities including profiling, capacity planning inputs, and incident root cause analysis
Other duties as required