Senior Automation Engineer

About the role

april is looking for a brilliant, curious, creative, and fun-loving Senior Automation Engineer with a passion for excellence and collaboration. You’ll also be ready to take on a huge challenge of building and testing april’s applications, APIs, computation engine and financial platform! We are looking for an individual who is comfortable and excited about taking ownership and driving initiatives from beginning to end and is not afraid of anything (in tech :P). If you’re all that and looking to lead, invent, and grow professionally you should definitely consider applying to join us on our journey!

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop april’s manual testing and automation processes, tools and infrastructure

• Be part of our core engineering team developing our services and system architecture

• Take significant part of the testing & quality assurance processes april-wide and ensure that quality is built into every step of the development life-cycle using the latest technologies and overcoming limitations

• Help define and drive our best practices and frameworks

• Work closely with the product team to define the testing strategy and incorporate it in our program plans and roadmap, execute the testing plans and be the advocate for benefits of QA & automation

• Influence design decisions, architectures, select/evaluate tools, and enforce a quality-based approach

Requirements

• 3+ years of Automation and QA experience building production-level services in large-scale products

• Experience with writing scripts with Python, Javascripts or equivalent

• Experience in designing and implementing test plans

• Experience in working with cross-platform services (Android, IOS, web etc.)

• Passion for clean code and agile methodology

• Excellent communication and a great team member. Work daily with our product, and the rest of the engineering team to make things work

• Experience with Google Cloud, gRPC - Advantage

• BSc in Computer Science or related fields - Advantage

• Experience with American Tax - Advantage

• Experience in automating APIs testing - Advantage

About april

april is the only embedded, year-round tax platform built to power smarter financial decisions. From filing to planning to onboarding, april’s white-labeled tools bring real-time tax intelligence into the platforms people already use, helping users understand the impact of every paycheck, equity transaction, or income shift, and stay on top of tax payments throughout the year. Built to handle even the most complex tax situations, april’s AI-powered tax engine ingests data directly from partner apps to deliver accurate outcomes in record time—making tax planning and filing more connected, contextual, and accessible than ever. With API-first infrastructure and seamless data integrations, april helps partners deliver more value, deepen loyalty, and turn taxes into a strategic edge—for their clients and their business.