Full-Stack Software Engineer
Location: Prefer Dallas, TX (open to remote)JOB DESCRIPTION: The company's Center for Advanced Tax Technology ("CATT") is a fast-paced, high-energy, collaborative environment that also happens to be one of the fastest growing tax practice groups at the company. The CATT team is focused on enhancing US and global ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient Tax products and services to our clients. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax functional, tax technical, technology development, and product management. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.
JOB SUMMARY The CATT Senior Engineer works with Product Owners and Business Analysts to design, develop, and maintain custom-developed software that is used by internal partners and staff as well as external clients to drive long-term scalability and sustainability of the business for a competitive advantage. To execute their area of responsibility, this role collaborates with staff, product teams, IT, other functional areas within the broader company firm, and field offices to ensure we achieve the vision cohesively and effectively. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success leading high-performance teams, strong data analytics capabilities, a continuous improvement mindset, and a deep passion for the digital transformational journey.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES - Works with Product Owners and BAs to understand business needs and requirements.
- Focuses on solving complex problems by creating technical designs and reference documentation for implementation.
- Produces clean, secure, efficient, and well documented code.
- Leads application integrations with various approaches such as APIs, REST services, etc.
- Partners with DevOps on CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation.
- Troubleshoots, debugs, and fixes defects in existing software.
- Provides technical guidance to product teams and developers throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Conducts code reviews to identify improvement opportunities.
- Participates and champions all agile/scrum ceremonies (or adherence to Kanban principles); monitors sprint burndown charts to know when to ramp up/down the team to drive quality and velocity over time.
- Serves as a Career Advisor for FTEs or hiring manager for Contractors, which requires regular feedback, coaching, goal setting and training with assigned advisee(s)/contractor(s).
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS - Bachelor's Degree (preference given to Business or Technology or Accounting major).
- Certified AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions or equivalent experience.
JOB REQUIREMENTS - Minimum 7 years' experience leading software delivery teams and developing solutions (required).
- Minimum 5 years' experience in software development, with a focus on using React-JS.NetCore platforms that are integrated utilizing APIs, and deployed in Azure Cloud (required).
- Results driven; high integrity; ability to influence, negotiate and build relationships; superior communications skills; make complex decisions and lead team through complex challenges (required).
- Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (required); Secure Software Development Life Cycle (preferred).
- Experience with Agile development methodologies (required).
- Self-disciplined to work in a virtual, agile, globally sourced team (required).
- Prior public accounting experience with mid to large size firm(s) or other professional services experience (preferred).
SUCCESSFUL CHARACTERISTICS / SKILLS - Strategic, out-of-the-box thinker and problem-solving experience to assess, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
- Excellent analytical skills, extraordinary attention to detail, and ability to present recommendations to business teams based on trends, patterns, and modern best practices.
- Experience and passion for technology and providing exceptional experiences both internally for our employees and externally for clients and prospects.
- Strong ownership, bias to action, and know-how to succeed in ambiguity.
- Ability to deliver value consistently by motivating teams towards achieving goals.