Senior Software Engineer-AI

H&R Block is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its AI Platforms Team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying AI platform services and solutions, including scalable and resilient features, testing, code reviews, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Use business and functional requirements to produce technical specifications and platform requirements
• Use tools, languages, coding standards and best practices to develop new product features and continually enhance product functionality
• Create and execute unit tests and address identified defects
• Work closely with other team members to ensure consistent understanding of requirements and approach
• Build features to support scalability, usability, resiliency and better performance
• Assist in technical design and code reviews for new enhancements and maintenance work delivered by the development team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience
• 5+ years of experience building software products & solutions
• 3-5 year of hands on experience working with: .NET, REST APIs, Cosmos/SQL server, Azure
• Experience working with agile methodologies (SCRUM and/or Kanban)
• Experience with Azure DevOps platform including source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience developing engineering solutions to meet functional & non-functional requirements
• Strong communication skills and problem-solving skills
• 1+ year of experience building AI products & solutions
• Experience with the following Azure SignalR service and Azure AI Services