We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Developer .Net to join our Technology team.
The Sr. Software Developer will be a full-stack developer working on Questar’s multi-platform code bases. You will be overseeing code produced by a team of developers for implementing new features, maintaining existing code, refactoring existing code, establishing and refining development standards across the breadth of products used both internally and customer facing at Questar Assessment, Inc.
Questar’s code base primarily includes ASP.NET/HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3, ServiceStack and WCF Services, OpenSource internal tools, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database code. All code currently under source control using Subversion repositories.
As such you will assist with concerns ranging from code architecture and delivery, SQL queries, Mac/Win/Linux desktops, iOS and Android tablets, and Chromebooks. Your experience and knowledge will help to drive Questar’s student test taking platform to well perceived products that brings confidence and delight to students and teachers across districts in United Status.
Responsibilities:
Estimation of 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 BA, QA, off-shore resources, and product owners to develop new enhancements and releases
Development to support product and project needs
- Provide development coding and consulting support to products under development
- 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
- Learn and ensure item and assessment publishing and delivery are QTI/APIP conformant
- Enhance current system to ensure backend scalability and front-end design integrity
- Developing updates to existing internal and external facing software to enhance the customer experience and provide development staff with easily maintainable code.
- Developing 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 nation.
- Develop clean code that utilize proven design pattern in a test-driven development environment
Trouble-shooting and 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.