Senior Software Engineer - Tax Technology

• Senior Software Engineer
• Tax & Legal Technology
• D Grade

Tax and Legal Technology Team

We are a team of 300+ technologists providing technology enablement services and solutions across the Tax and Legal business. This business has 2,500 tax & legal professionals covering multiple disciplines.

We serve many thousands of clients and private individuals by providing a modern, market-leading suite of technology solutions that provide an efficient digital experience from routine to complex tax advice depending on client’s situation.

Tax is highlighted frequently as an industry where generative AI will have a significant impact on how services are provided. You will be working as a team at the forefront of navigating that change and redefining the way in which tax is determined in the UK and globally, making sure people and companies pay the right amount of tax with the minimum amount of effort.

The Engineering department is made up of Product Owners, Business Analysts, multi-disciplinary Engineering teams (approximately 160 Software, QA and Cloud Operations engineers) and IT Service delivery professionals working on a large portfolio of systems used to improve productivity and solve key business problems across Tax & Legal.

We also build cutting edge web portals for clients to interact with KPMG, maximising collaboration and ensuring seamless delivery of information to our clients.

The Role

You will be working in a small team of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers across a variety of projects for both our clients and our internal professionals. You will be responsible both for the development and delivery of software solutions. Your team will work alongside a Product Owner who will help prioritise deliverables allowing you to focus on creating world-class solutions.

The role is based in London. We generally spend two days per week in the office.

Whilst there is no expectation of existing knowledge of tax, we would expect you to develop a degree of domain knowledge over time.

You will have …

• Deep Technical Expertise: Hands on experience designing, specifying and developing software.
• Programming Skills: Have heavily used modern object-oriented languages such as C# or Java.
• Enterprise Expertise: Know how to build REST APIs and have experience of messaging.
• Data Modelling: Have worked with defining data models and interacting with database.
• Proven Track Record: Have built software that includes user facing web applications.
• Collaborative Approach: Have a passion to work in an agile team working collaboratively with others and adopt best practices.
• Continuous Delivery: Used source control and continuous integration tools as part of a team.

You may have …

• AI Systems: Built systems leveraging generative AI and machine learning.
• Cloud Experience:
• Experience building applications for the cloud such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other serverless application delivery platforms.
• Continuous Delivery: Used Git, Jenkins, GitHub or Azure DevOps.
• Proven Track Record: Worked with React, Angular, Blazor, ASP MVC or other modern web UI frameworks.
• Data Modelling:
• Used Entity Framework or other popular ORM tools.
• Used NoSQL databases such as cosmos DB, Mongo or Cassandra.
• Enterprise Expertise: Experience with messaging such as Service Bus, MQ or Kafka.
• Data Analytics: Experience with Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.

In this role you will …

• Collaborative Approach: Work collaboratively in a Lean Agile team using a Scaled SCRUM framework.
• Programming Skills:
• Develop Web Applications that use back end C#/ASP.NET Core.
• Using front end Typescript/React/Angular, ASP.NET MVC or C#/Blazor.
• Cloud Experience:
• Build cloud first applications on a continuous delivery platform with 100% infrastructure as code.
• Package applications in containers and deploy on Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Data Modelling: Use entity framework code first data with Azure SQL or a NoSQL Databases.
• Enterprise Expertise: Build resilient Microservice and Micro-front ends integrated via a Cloud message bus.
• Security Practices: Comply with secure coding & infrastructure standards and policies.
• Continuous Delivery: Assist with supporting your application using modern DevOps tools.
• Quality Focus:
• Continuously improve your technical knowledge and share what you learn with others.
• Seek to build components that can be reusable by other teams.

What we can offer

• Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, the infrastructure required isn't small.
• A great team environment.
• A shared love of technology and learning about even newer technology to ensure our cloud platform continues to advance.
• Access to regular training opportunities and paid relevant certifications.
• Market equal pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.

The best of both worlds

We might be world leaders, but in many ways the department feels like a start-up, with a twist. There’s the buzz of scrum working, the thrill of shaping compelling experiences, the chance to surprise and stretch yourself in response to a fresh challenge. And then there’s all the resources, technology and high-profile projects of a major corporate entity.

Crucially, we also offer the benefit of clear career progression.