Senior Software Engineer

Company: Questar Assessment
Location: Apple Valley
Posted on: December 20, 2019

Job Description:

SUMMARY: The Sr. Software Engineer 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, Restful APIs and WCF Services, open source internal tools, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database code. All code currently under source control using Git 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. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Code-review and working with a team of 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. QUALIFICATIONS:
    • Experience: 7+ years of software development using .NET/C#HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3, and Microsoft T-SQL.
    • Full-stack awareness from front-end to database design and development
    • A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience
    • Experience with at least one framework/library like bootstrap.js, foundation.js, angular.js, react.js
    • Extensive experience with modern JavaScript library such as jQuery, backbone.js, modernizr.js, d3.js
    • Ability to write clean, standardized, and code that performs optimally in highly concurrent environments.
    • Experience with "Sr. Software Developer" responsibilities across internal development team, experience with offshore development teams a plus.
    • Ability to consume and create APIs and web services using REST.
    • Experience with Waterfall and Agile development and familiarity with scrum
    • Experience with contribution to public open source front end development code base is a plus
    • Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0 compliance) and education accessibility standards (QTI/APIP, SIF, AIF) is a plus.
    • Familiarity with other web technologies and program languages a plus: PHP, MVC.
    • Experience with cloud migrations and cloud native applications. Other Requirements:
      • Must be authorized to work in the US and not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.
      • Must be willing to relocate to the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN area (telecommuting not available)

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