Junior Software Engineer 1

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry. Job Description: The Junior Software Engineer Analyst is an early-career role within an Agile product or application engineering team. The role develops, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains software by completing assigned stories, tasks, defects, and technical activities under experienced engineering leadership.  Key Responsibilities  Develop and maintain software features based on assigned user stories and technical specifications.  Write readable, reusable, secure, maintainable, and appropriately documented code.  Apply object-oriented programming, coding standards, design principles, and approved patterns.  Develop backend services, APIs, user interfaces, automation components, or data-processing functions based on project needs.  Write and execute unit tests and support integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.  Investigate and resolve defects with guidance from senior team members.  Use debugging, logging, and monitoring tools to understand application behavior.  Participate in code reviews and incorporate review feedback.  Use Git-based workflows for source control and team collaboration.  Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and retrospectives.  Maintain technical documentation, code comments, test evidence, and work-item updates.  Follow secure development, data protection, accessibility, and performance practices.  Understand the broader impact of code changes on modules, interfaces, data, and users.  Seek assistance promptly when blocked and communicate progress, dependencies, and risks clearly.  Essential Job Functions  Software Development  Complete small development tasks, defects, and user stories.  Develop basic backend, frontend, API, database, or automation components.  Follow coding, naming, documentation, repository, and definition-of-done standards.  Quality Engineering  Write unit tests and participate in integration and regression testing.  Reproduce and remediate defects.  Validate functionality against acceptance criteria.  Collaboration and Delivery  Estimate assigned tasks with guidance.  Maintain accurate work-item status.  Participate in peer reviews, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing.  Security and Operations