Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. H&R Block is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help modernize their software architecture. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain software components that support business applications, while also leading day-to-day functional tasks and mentoring team members.
Responsibilities
- 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 addresses defects
- Work closely with Quality Assurance, User Experience, 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
- Drive technical decisions from concept through production, balancing business outcomes, scalability, maintainability, and delivery timelines
- Own complex initiatives spanning multiple systems and teams, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Champion engineering excellence by establishing development standards, improving architecture, and reducing technical debt
- Leverage AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to increase engineering productivity, code quality, testing coverage, and knowledge sharing
- Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including AI and automation capabilities, to improve developer experience and customer outcomes
- Design systems that effectively combine business logic, APIs, data services, and intelligent automation to solve customer and operational challenges
- Contribute to architectural decisions that improve system reliability, observability, performance, security, and scalability
- Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to translate ambiguous business needs into sustainable technical solutions
- Identify opportunities to simplify systems, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and improve long-term maintainability
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution efforts for complex production issues while driving preventative improvements
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational practices that improve service health and customer experience
- Advocate for automation across development, testing, deployment, and operational processes
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, innovation, and accountability across the engineering team
- Mentor engineers on technical design, systems thinking, AI-enabled development practices, and career growth
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience
- 5 years minimum related work experience with the following:
- React / TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
- AWS
- REST APIs and event-driven architectures
- GitHub Actions and CI/CD tooling
- Infrastructure as Code
- Observability and Monitoring Platforms (Datadog preferred)
- AI-assisted software development tools and engineering automation platforms
- Building cloud-native and distributed systems
- Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions
- Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and drive outcomes in ambiguous environments
- Leveraging AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows to improve productivity, testing, code quality, and documentation
Benefits
- Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage
- Can participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan)
- The Employee Assistance Program
- (virtual) fitness center programs
- The associate discount program
- Are automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance
- Receive Associate Tax Prep benefit
- Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan
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