Job Alert: Software Developer, .NET

Responsibilities

• Estimate project effort and technical design documentation to direct developers’ approach
• Collaborate with Directors and IT Project Managers to provide accurate work estimates
• Create efficiencies between development and requirements gathering with supplemental technical design documentation
• Monitor performance against technical documentation to provide continuous improvement as needed
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, offshore resources, and product owners to develop new enhancements and releases
• Support products under development with development coding and consulting
• Isolate key areas of concern and document needs for implementation team to be aware of as products are delivered for use in Production environments
• Integrate with client implementation team to provide development guidance and performance feedback to improve code performance
• Research new technologies and build prototypes as the testing industry continues to evolve
• Ensure item and assessment publishing and delivery are QTI/APIP conformant
• Enhance current system to ensure backend scalability and front-end design integrity
• Develop updates to existing internal and external facing software to enhance the customer experience and provide development staff with easily maintainable code
• Develop updates to existing features in student test taking platform to resolve issues on various OS, such as iOS, Android, etc.
• Code review and mentoring other developers
• Review and critique database code to ensure quality and recovery methods
• Collaborate with Architects in best practices for code implementation with code reviews prior to deployment from the development environments
• Work one-on-one and in small team groups to discuss and refine poorly performing code
• Develop code with front-end developers to streamline and support online content authoring and publishing capability that is needed to feed new and innovative items to students across the nation
• Develop clean code that utilizes proven design patterns in a test-driven development environment
• Troubleshoot and provide production support of client issues during live production activities
• Respond to client support requests and customer service requests with solutions in collaboration with company architects
• Work with Infrastructure teams to trouble-shoot problem areas
• Provide clear and consistent communication around solutions and timelines to client-facing program management teams

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of software development using .NET/C#, HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3/MVC
• A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience
• A Master’s Degree in technology field a plus
• Extensive experience with modern JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, backbone.js, modernizr.js, d3.js
• Ability to write clean, standardized, and perform optimally in highly concurrent environments
• Experience with consuming and creating APIs and web services using REST
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile development and familiarity with Scrum
• Experience contributing to public open source front-end development code base a plus

Other Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the US and not require visa sponsorship now or in the future
• Willingness to relocate to the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN area (telecommuting not available)