Principal Software Engineer – Native Mobile Development

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🏰 Missouri – Remote

🏰 Missouri – Remote

💵 $132.2k - $224.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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H&R Block

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1955

💸 Finance

👥 B2C

🤝 B2B

Finance • B2C • B2B

H&R Block is a U. S. -based tax preparation and financial services company that provides in-person and online tax filing, tax professionals, small business bookkeeping and payroll, and related financial products such as refund advances and prepaid cards. Founded in 1955, it operates retail tax offices, franchises, and digital platforms to serve consumers and small businesses with tax, accounting, and financial solutions.

📋 Description

• Provide technical vision and leadership across Financial Services applications, with deep ownership of the Spruce native mobile ecosystem and its integrations • Architect and guide robust, scalable, accessible, observable, and secure native iOS and Android applications using Swift and Kotlin • Define, evolve, and enforce engineering and architecture standards, including MVVM, Clean Architecture, modular design, API and integration patterns, reusable components, secure coding, performance, resiliency, and cloud-native practices • Ensure enterprise standards are met across architecture governance, cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory and compliance expectations, accessibility, quality engineering, release management, observability, and production support readiness • Establish best practices for AI-assisted design and development, agentic workflows, specification-driven development, test generation, code review, documentation, and responsible use of approved AI tools • Identify AI use cases, define guardrails and reusable patterns, measure engineering outcomes, and help teams adopt AI without compromising security or compliance • Mentor engineers and technical leads through architecture reviews, design sessions, code reviews, pairing, coaching, and communities of practice • Maintain deep working knowledge of Financial Services products, customer journeys, infrastructure, operational dependencies, data exchanges, APIs, event flows, and third-party integrations • Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Operations, Data, and enterprise stakeholders • Participate in vendor evaluations, technology assessments, proofs of concept, contract and capability reviews, security and architecture reviews, and vendor performance discussions • Lead technology selection and buy-versus-build analysis • Align solutions with Block enterprise architecture, approved platforms, shared capabilities, integration patterns, data standards, identity and access controls, infrastructure strategy, and modernization objectives • Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, release automation, feature management, telemetry, performance monitoring, and production diagnostics • Lead complex technical investigations and resolution of cross-application issues involving mobile clients, APIs, services, infrastructure, data, identity, networks, and external providers • Evaluate and govern third-party SDKs, APIs, platforms, and services • Influence roadmaps and investment decisions by identifying technical risks, architectural constraints, modernization opportunities, platform reuse, and sequencing considerations • Stay current with iOS, Android, AI engineering, financial technology, security, cloud, infrastructure, and software architecture trends • Design and oversee reusable software components, reference architectures, development accelerators, and engineering standards

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience through a combination of education and professional practice • Ten to twelve years of progressive software engineering experience, including substantial experience as a technical lead, architect, or principal-level engineer for complex, customer-facing applications • Deep expertise in native mobile development using Swift, Kotlin, Xcode, and Android Studio • Demonstrated experience delivering and operating iOS and Android applications at enterprise scale • Experience with mobile architecture, API and service integration, performance optimization, secure coding, accessibility, resiliency, observability, automated testing, and release engineering • Broad understanding of distributed systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure, networks, identity and access management, data integration, event-driven patterns, and production operations • Experience applying AI-assisted engineering practices, including agentic workflows and responsible development patterns, within an enterprise software delivery environment • Experience establishing engineering standards and influencing adoption across multiple teams, applications, or platforms • Ability to mentor engineers, provide technical feedback, facilitate architecture and design reviews, and raise engineering capability across an organization • Experience evaluating vendors, third-party platforms, SDKs, APIs, and services and contributing to buy-versus-build decisions and technology selection • Ability to understand complex business domains and application ecosystems; financial services, banking, lending, payments, or regulated consumer products experience strongly desired • Experience with CI/CD and automation tools such as Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions, or comparable enterprise tooling • Experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, Espresso, and XCTest • Experience with application telemetry, mobile analytics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, experimentation, and operational diagnostics, including tools such as Datadog, Adobe Analytics, Firebase, or Sentry • Experience with shared SDKs, modular repositories, reusable component strategies, and micro-app or modular application architectures • Deep understanding of App Store and Google Play requirements, enterprise deployment, mobile privacy and security controls, and threat-modeling approaches such as STRIDE and platform capabilities such as App Attest • Excellent communication, leadership, influence, and stakeholder-management skills • Ability to engage technical and non-technical partners across teams and locations • Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline • Preferred: Eight or more years performing as a technical lead or architect for a major application, platform, or product ecosystem • Preferred: Experience modernizing a large hybrid mobile application into fully native iOS and Android applications • Preferred: Deep knowledge of financial services application portfolios, infrastructure, regulatory constraints, operational controls, and third-party integration models • Preferred: Experience with enterprise architecture governance, platform modernization, cloud transformation, and cross-portfolio technology strategy • Preferred: Demonstrated leadership in practical AI adoption for software engineering • Preferred: Contributions to open-source libraries, internal engineering platforms, reference architectures, or developer communities

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage for associates and eligible dependents • H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) • Employee Assistance Program • (Virtual) fitness center programs • Associate discount program • Business Travel Accident Insurance • Associate Tax Prep benefit • Competitive pay • Comprehensive benefits • Support for life both in and outside of work • Continuous learning • High Performing, Connected Culture