What are the responsibilities and job description for the Embark Intern - Technology position at H&R Block?
Our Company
We care about helping people. Our purpose is to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. Our associates feel a sense of belonging in an inclusive place with an amazing history and a sharp focus on our future. Our connected culture is who we are and how we work together to achieve our strategies, accelerate our transformation, and achieve extraordinary results. It’s an exciting time to be a part of H&R Block!
What you'll do...
H&R Block, the world’s leader in tax preparation services, is looking for exceptional Computer Science and Software Engineering students to join our Embark 2026 Summer Internship Program. This 11-week paid internship offers meaningful, real-world experience that aligns with your field of study while making a valuable impact on our organization.
The Embark 2026 Summer Internship runs from May 18, 2026 - July 31, 2026.
You’ll work at our corporate headquarters in the heart of downtown Kansas City’s Power & Light District, where you’re just steps, or a streetcar ride, away from incredible restaurants, entertainment, and city energy. Inside our building, you’ll have access to amenities that make work-life balance easy, including an onsite Starbucks, a company dining hall with plenty of options, a free fitness center, and free parking!
Program Highlights
Throughout the 11-week internship, under the guidance of a leader, some of the internship responsibilities will include:
Professional Development: includes the basics for a professional role, everything from using Microsoft Office to setting up a Teams meeting and giving a presentation.
Giveback: involves participating in Make Every Block Better community service events. The goal is to teach the importance of community, make an impact, and provide bonding time for teams.
Networking: entails meeting various executives with offices at H&R Block’s headquarters, having lunch with directors and vice presidents, spending time with a mentor and getting to know people beyond their assigned department.
Connected Culture: is meant to be fun and teach the importance of working hard and playing hard. H&R Block might take the interns to a Kansas City Royals game or facilitate other competitions meant to be fun or instill teamwork.
This information is posted pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act to provide Colorado applicants with information about what they might be eligible to receive. Individual pay decisions will depend on job-related factors such as experience, education, skill, performance, and geographic location where work will be performed.
Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan.
For best considerations, please submit your materials by 10/17/2025.
Education
What you'll bring to the team...
Since 1955, we have been leaders in tax preparation, financial services, and small business solutions. With 70,000 associates and 9,000 retail tax locations across North America, Australia, Ireland, and India, we have helped millions of clients and countless communities. If you embrace challenges as opportunities, value winning as a team, and seek to make a meaningful difference, join us on our journey. You’ll reap the rewards of helping others along with competitive compensation and benefits to support your health and well-being.
Specific benefits may vary based on your role. For detailed eligibility requirements and benefits information, visit blockbenefits.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer: H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.
We care about helping people. Our purpose is to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. Our associates feel a sense of belonging in an inclusive place with an amazing history and a sharp focus on our future. Our connected culture is who we are and how we work together to achieve our strategies, accelerate our transformation, and achieve extraordinary results. It’s an exciting time to be a part of H&R Block!
What you'll do...
H&R Block, the world’s leader in tax preparation services, is looking for exceptional Computer Science and Software Engineering students to join our Embark 2026 Summer Internship Program. This 11-week paid internship offers meaningful, real-world experience that aligns with your field of study while making a valuable impact on our organization.
The Embark 2026 Summer Internship runs from May 18, 2026 - July 31, 2026.
You’ll work at our corporate headquarters in the heart of downtown Kansas City’s Power & Light District, where you’re just steps, or a streetcar ride, away from incredible restaurants, entertainment, and city energy. Inside our building, you’ll have access to amenities that make work-life balance easy, including an onsite Starbucks, a company dining hall with plenty of options, a free fitness center, and free parking!
Program Highlights
- $25/hour compensation
- Paid PTO during H&R Block’s annual Reboot Week (June 29 - July 3)
- Housing stipend provided for students whose permanent address is more than 50 miles from the KC metro
Throughout the 11-week internship, under the guidance of a leader, some of the internship responsibilities will include:
- Research, gather and organize data to provide information for special projects or reports.
- Design, develop and maintain software components and products that support H&R Block business applications.
- Use tools, languages, coding standards and best practices to develop new product features and maintain year over year product functionality and enhancements.
- Create and execute unit tests and address defects.
- Create and maintain documentation of design approaches.
- Create and maintain documentation on internal architecture of the system.
- Work closely with the QA, User Experience and other teams to ensure consistent understanding of requirements and approach.
- Interns will be provided with significant guidance and mentoring but will also be encouraged to work independently as well.
Professional Development: includes the basics for a professional role, everything from using Microsoft Office to setting up a Teams meeting and giving a presentation.
Giveback: involves participating in Make Every Block Better community service events. The goal is to teach the importance of community, make an impact, and provide bonding time for teams.
Networking: entails meeting various executives with offices at H&R Block’s headquarters, having lunch with directors and vice presidents, spending time with a mentor and getting to know people beyond their assigned department.
Connected Culture: is meant to be fun and teach the importance of working hard and playing hard. H&R Block might take the interns to a Kansas City Royals game or facilitate other competitions meant to be fun or instill teamwork.
This information is posted pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act to provide Colorado applicants with information about what they might be eligible to receive. Individual pay decisions will depend on job-related factors such as experience, education, skill, performance, and geographic location where work will be performed.
Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan.
For best considerations, please submit your materials by 10/17/2025.
Education
What you'll bring to the team...
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Seeking to obtain a degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science., Information Science, Software Engineering, or some similar discipline with a GPA of 3.0 or above
- Ability to work as part of a diverse team and independently
- Highly motivated, organized, reliable, and detail-oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Quick learner and not afraid to work with new computer-based programs and databases
- Ability to be effective and contribute in a fast-paced corporate environment
- No previous work experience necessary.
- Knowledge of software development concepts and practices.
- Knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle.
- Familiarity working in any of our current technologies:
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- .NET and C#
- Python
- SQL and Cosmos databases
- Cloud native and Kubernetes
- Cognitive services
- Microservices and Micro frontends
- Event driven architecture
- Terraform and Developer delivered infrastructure
- Generative AI, LLMs and ML models
Since 1955, we have been leaders in tax preparation, financial services, and small business solutions. With 70,000 associates and 9,000 retail tax locations across North America, Australia, Ireland, and India, we have helped millions of clients and countless communities. If you embrace challenges as opportunities, value winning as a team, and seek to make a meaningful difference, join us on our journey. You’ll reap the rewards of helping others along with competitive compensation and benefits to support your health and well-being.
Specific benefits may vary based on your role. For detailed eligibility requirements and benefits information, visit blockbenefits.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer: H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.
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