Senior Software Engineer, Seasonal

About the Role

When you join us as a seasonal Senior Software Engineer, you will use your technical expertise to design, develop, and maintain software components and products that support H&R Block business applications and transform our technology. You’ll serve in the lead role for day-to-day functional tasks in the team, developer support, and maintaining the development environment.

• Use tools, languages, coding standards, and best practices to develop new product features and maintain year over year product functionality and enhancements.
• Create and execute unit tests and address defects.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance (QA), User Experience (UX), and other related teams to ensure consistent understanding of requirements and approach.
• Assist in planning and implementation of a strategic direction for the product.
• Identify product design features to support scalability, usability, and better performance.
• Assist and drive technical design and code reviews for all new enhancements and maintenance work delivered by the development team.
• Understand complex business and functional requirements and produce technical specifications and product requirements.
• Mentor and coach other team members on the latest technological advances within the current technology used and establish consistent best practices.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.

Work Experience:

• Ability to design scalable and efficient systems, including knowledge of design patterns and architecture principles.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and methodologies to ensure high-quality code, including unit testing and component integration testing.
• 5 years minimum related work experience.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Understanding of the necessary technology stack and language of the position/team.

$ - $/Yr.