Senior Application Developer

For this contract position with a hugely popular Pacific Northwest company, you will be developing cost effective information technology solutions by creating new and modifying existing, complex software applications.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Participates in requirements gathering activities
- Reviews systems under development and related documentation
- Creates more complex prototypes and ensures deliverables are high quality and meet user expectations
- Codes, tests, debugs, documents, and implements complex software applications
- May coordinate activities of the project team and assist in monitoring project schedules and costs
- Designs, develops, implements, documents, and tests changes to an application subsystem
- Codes, tests, debugs, documents, and implements complex software applications
- Supports system and integration testing activities
- Initiates design reviews for new applications and adheres to software development standards
- Resolves and helps mitigate production application issues and assists less experienced application developers as needed
- Works with other business and technology teams to support resolution of end user inquiries
- Contributes to the documentation of production support processes
- Anticipates long term support issues and plans for corrective actions
- May perform root cause analysis to identify permanent resolutions to software or business process issues
- Working with application development leads, establishes, maintains and ensures compliance with standards for development, testing and documentation
- Coaches and mentors other less experienced team members
- Performs cross-training and facilitates information sharing among team members
- Collaborates with team members to recommend new software development technologies and development processes

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience analysing, diagnosing and proposing solutions to user problems: 6 years
- Application development and programming experience: 6 years
- Experience providing support to various business applications: 6 years
- Experience working with process owners and identifying information technology solutions that enable business process: 4 years
- Strong Object Oriented development and design skills in C#/.NET Framework 4.0/4.5
- Experience with Visual Studio 2010/2012
- Experience using source control, preferably Team Foundation Server 2010/2012
- Experience with other source control systems such as Git, SVN, etc. helpful
- Experience with SQL Server 2008: creating tables, writing stored procedures, debugging, performance tuning, SSIS
- Experience with other databases a plus (document, key/value, etc. : Mongo, Redis, etc.)
- Experience with design, development, and testing of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC Web API, and WCF services (SOAP and REST)
- Understanding of, and ideally experience using, various forms of security applied to web services such as Basic Auth, OAuth 2.0, and API keys
- Experience with both XML and JSON data
- Experience consuming publicly available REST services beneficial (eg Twitter, Facebook, services found on ProgrammableWeb)
- Experience using a variety of tools and languages to consume and test services a plus (C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, etc. and any tools such as Fiddler, Rested)
- Experience with cloud hosted services and service management solutions (Mashery, Apigee, etc.) a plus
- Experience developing services for mobile apps and/or consuming services while building a mobile app a plus
- Testing experience including:
- Automation, particularly around services/API tests
- Visual Studio/Team Foundation/Other tools
- Designing, creating, and executing unit tests, integration testing, load and performance tests.
- Knowledge of basic project management framework and methodology
- Ability to accurately estimate design and development timelines for application components
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to quickly learn new application systems and technologies
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

This contract position is expected to be 7 months in duration.