Job description
Staff Software Engineer - Tax & Legal Technology - C 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 an accomplished individual contributor. You will specialize in helping our team's driving innovation, accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, and enhancing our engineering practices. You will be known for having skills in software architecture and will work across our teams to help them build and adopt common architectures and tooling. You should be self-motivated, capable of writing code, and passionate about building scalable, high-quality software solutions.
The role can be based anywhere in the UK, though preference will be given to candidates in Glasgow, London, Manchester or Leeds. 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 ...
1. Deep Technical Expertise:Hands on experience designing, architecting, specifying and developing large scale complex systemsSpecialist skills in cloud native architectures, design, automation, workflow and event driven systems
2. Quality Focus: A DevSecOps mindset with great attention to detail
3. Proven Track Record:Proven experience of leading and delivering projects, common services and unified architecturesDemonstrable experience leading and mentoring othersBuilt software that includes user facing web applications
4. Communication: Outstanding communication and presentation skills
5. Programming Skills: Heavily used modern object-oriented languages such has C# or Java
6. Enterprise Expertise:Expertise in software design patterns, clean code, and clean architecture principlesKnowledge of building REST APIs and have experience of messaging
7. Data Modelling: Worked with defining data models and interacting with database
8. Collaborative Approach: A passion to work in an Agile Team working collaboratively with others and adopt best practices
9. Continuous Delivery: Used source control and continuous integration tools as part of a team
10. Security Practices: An understanding of application security controls like SAST, DAST, Penetration Testing, etc.
You may have ...
11. AI Systems: Built systems leveraging generative AI and machine learning.
12. Cloud Experience: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other serverless application delivery platforms
13. Proven Track Record: Worked with React, Angular, Blazor, MVC or other modern web UI frameworks
14. Data Modelling: Used Entity Framework or other popular ORM tools
15. Quality Focus: Used GitHub Copilot and other tools to increase development productivity
16. Data Modelling: Used NoSQL databases such as cosmos DB, Mongo or Cassandra,
17. Enterprise Expertise: Experience with messaging such as Service Bus, MQ or Kafka
18. Data Analysis: Experience with Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
19. Collaborative Approach: Experience of pair and mob programming
In this role you will ...
20. Deep Technical Expertise:Work where needed alongside our leads, principal engineers, product owners to design software architecture and build AI enabled tools for mission-critical applications used by Fortune 500 companies, ensuring scalability and resilienceIntegrate emerging technologies like AI-driven development, Web Components, etc.Create architecture design and diagrams for core platform and common services.Provide mentoring to other developers within Engineering department.Architect and build highly distributed microservices, leveraging event-driven architectures, AI-powered automation, and cutting-edge cloud technologies like Kubernetes and serverless computing
21. Proven Track Record: Contribute to the blueprint for our software ecosystem, shaping how teams build applications for years to come
22. Communication: Communicate and collaborate effectively with development team leads to help accelerate the delivery of products
23. Collaborative Approach: Work collaboratively in a LEAN Agile team using a Scaled SCRUM framework
24. Programming Skills: Take ownership of the development of common services, libraries, reusable components or applications using .NetUse front end Typescript/React, MVC or C#/Blazor
25. Cloud Experience:Build cloud first applications and services with high test coverage on a continuous delivery platform with 100% infrastructure as codePackage applications in containers and deploy on Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps or other Azure compute services
26. Data Modelling: Use entity framework code first data with Azure SQL or a NoSQL Databases
27. Security Practices: Comply with secure coding & infrastructure standards and policies
28. Continuous Delivery: Assist with supporting your application using modern DevSecOps tools
29. Quality Focus: Continuously improve your technical knowledge and share what you learn with others
What we can offer
30. Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, the infrastructure required isn't small.
31. A great team environment.
32. A shared love of technology and learning about even newer technology to ensure our cloud platform continues to advance.
33. Access to regular training opportunities and paid relevant certifications.
34. 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.
Industry-leading rewards
Only KPMG offers the advantages of Our Deal - an industry-leading and radically different approach to pay, progression and benefits. Our Deal is a vibrant combination of secondment and fast-track opportunities plus one, transparent, company-wide bonus mechanism. It also includes payment towards student loans, preferential banking offers, the opportunity to finish work early on Fridays in summer - and even a day off for your birthday.
The diverse and inclusive employer
Proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer, we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of The Employers' Forum on Disability we're committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss with your recruitment contact any reasonable adjustments to our Recruitment Process that you may require.
KPMG consistently features in the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for. This has been recognised with a special achievement award to mark our 10 years in the Top 25. We pride ourselves on being a place where individuality is valued; you can be yourself and still achieve your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results to our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference.