• *Lead Software Engineer

    H&R Block (Kansas City, MO)


    Our Company

     

    We care about helping people. Our purpose is to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. Our associates feel a sense of belonging in an inclusive place with an amazing history and a sharp focus on our future. Our connected culture is who we are and how we work together to achieve our strategies, accelerate our transformation, and achieve extraordinary results. It’s an exciting time to be a part of H&R Block!

     

    What you'll do...

     

    Provide technical expertise to design, develop and maintain software components and products that support H&R Block business applications. Provide a lead role for day-to-day functional and non-functional tasks in the team, developer support and maintain the development environment. Create test strategies utilizing unit, integration, pact, load, performance and system testing framework and tools. Assist in planning and implementation of a strategic direction for the product. Design, develop and maintain complex software components using distributed microservice architecture. Build accessible applications using JAWS and NVDA, and design and implement application resilience using the Polly framework. Assist and drive technical design and code reviews for all new enhancements and maintenance work delivered by the development team. Maintain all the application environments to build and deploy applications. Build and deploy code using CI/CD pipelines with Azure Devops and other tools. Mentor and coach other team members on the latest technological advances within the current technology used.

     

    What you'll bring to the team...

     

    Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Information Technology, or a related field.

    Eight years of software architecture and development experience to include:

    + Software development lifecycle using Agile and Kanban.

    + ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .Net Core, Web API, WCF, HTML, XML, CSS, C#, Visual Studio, VS Code, NUnit and Rhino Mock.

    + Client-side frameworks such as Angular JS, JavaScript, jQuery and JSON.

    + Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Microservice distributed architecture.

    + Cloud Technologies - Microsoft Azure, Azure Web App, Azure Functions, Durable Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Redis cache, Key Vault, Application Insights and Docker.

    + Build and deploy code using CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.

    + Deploy infrastructure pipelines using YAML.

    + SQL Server, No-SQL databases like Cosmos and PostgreSQL, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), JAWS, NVDA, TFS, Git and SonarQube.

    + Strategies utilizing unit, integration, pact, load, performance and system testing.

    + Design application resilience and security using Polly, OAuth2 and Application/API Gateway.

    + WPF, ADO.NET, LINQ, ORM, Entity Framework, and N Hibernate.

    + Technical leadership and mentorship on teams.

     

    In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus eight years of experience, a Master's degree plus six years of experience is acceptable.

     

    Why work for us

     

    Since 1955, we have been leaders in tax preparation, financial services, and small business solutions. With 70,000 associates and 9,000 retail tax locations across North America, Australia, Ireland, and India, we have helped millions of clients and countless communities. If you embrace challenges as opportunities, value winning as a team, and seek to make a meaningful difference, join us on our journey. You’ll reap the rewards of helping others along with competitive compensation and benefits to support your health and well-being.Specific benefits may vary based on your role. For detailed eligibility requirements and benefits information, visit blockbenefits.com (https://www.blockbenefits.com/public/welcome) .Equal Opportunity Employer: H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.

     

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