Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills : C++ Programming Language

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 5 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : BTECH

The way we work this is this person would need to be available to take on tickets from the Tax Research team for monthly compliance changes to our legacy code base that is then shared with classic cloud, VITR on demand and express returns. This work ebbs and flows throughout the month. This is required, since it has not been determined when this product will sunset and the existing contractors will roll off. When it is ebbing, the person would be available to take on express returns work.

Strong C skills:

Must be able to take on very large codebase with lots of detail.

Looking for

Willingness to take time to explore and seek understanding

Seeking help from co-workers when appropriate

Using online resources

Using local tools, debugging, testing

Understanding of memory handling in C (unmanaged).

Understanding of allocation and freeing memory in appropriate scope

Understanding of different memory space (heap/stack) and segments (static memory that can be used but not altered)

Understanding of build process (compile/link) and what each step output and why, at a basic level.

Strong knowledge of C.

Pointers: why they exist and how you declare, assign and manipulate them.

Knowledge of the standard C library

Professional experience of at least 5 years with c /c++ and large scale projects

SQL, preferably MS-SQL programming and administration

For VITR-NA:

Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server:

Administration incl. local installs for Development purposes, using multiple versions on the same machine, configuring ports and protocols, understanding user security

Ability to use SSMS for database backup/restore/testing queries/general troubleshooting of databases

Knowledge of how to profile a query for performance, how to read profiler logs

General SQL knowledge:

JOINs (all types), cartesian products

When, why and how to create/use Stored Procedures

Basic SQL functions like MIN, MAX, CASE statements, subqueries

Correct parameter handling, understanding SQL injection potential

Understanding when and how GROUP BY is used

Visual Studio environment

Ability to use debugger, profiler and other tools provided by Visual Studio to troubleshoot field issues given customer data.

Understand character encodings (Unicode vs. ASCII) at a basic level.

Explain when to use tools like a Profiler or SQL tools to find performance issues.

git proficiency

Explain what a commit is and why Pull Requests exist.

Basic understanding of what CI/CD is and why it's important.

Understanding and experience with GitHub Actions a plus

VB.NET or at least old VB and some .NET (C# for instance) experience.

AI: Basic understanding of what it does

How can it help in day-to-day

What to look out for in AI results

How has it helped in the past, what could it have helped with had it existed

Additional Information:

You will be working with a Trusted Tax Technology Leader, committed to delivering reliable and innovative solutions

This position is based at our Hyderabad office.