Senior Full Stack Engineer

Overview

Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, powerful software for accounting firms. The company is on a mission to help accountants build an autonomous firm — giving them back time and tools to focus on their clients. The Practice Management Suite is designed for firms that want to work smarter, grow faster, and deliver more value.

The organization emphasizes delighting customers, solving problems, and being good people along the way.

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We are hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help improve our world-class practice management platform for accounting professionals. You will work on a highly collaborative squad with 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, enabling multiple production deployments per day.

If you want to have a meaningful impact at a company that values agile practices, we would love to hear from you.

• Partner with your PM, UX designer, fellow engineers, QA, and customers to define and validate new features end-to-end
• Build user-facing experiences in JavaScript/Type Script and React that delight our customers
• Design and implement REST API endpoints and microservices using Python with FastAPI or Java with Vert.x, backed by PostgreSQL
• Write unit tests, participate in code reviews, and help maintain quality across the codebase
• Own builds and deployments to staging and production using Docker, Git Lab, 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

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with meaningful exposure to both frontend and backend work
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, with experience in React or a similar modern framework
• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following backend languages (Python, Java, or Kotlin) and comfort with SQL and RESTful API design
• Familiarity with modern tooling:
  Type Script, Git, and testing frameworks for both frontend and backend 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

• 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

Note:

We encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. We value diversity and inclusion.

• Flexible Paid Time Off with 10 company holidays
• Health Benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision with an HSA Match
• 401(k) with company match
• Mental Health resources including access to a support program
• Paid New Parent Leave and Birthing Parent Leave
• Supplemental Benefits including Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability
• Nectar peer-to-peer recognition program
• Company events and active employee engagement programs
• Employee Resource Group committees for education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more
• Fully-stocked kitchen with options for various dietary preferences

We approach our work with the following values:
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