Bright Horizons - Newton, MA
posted 3 months ago
We are seeking a Senior Application Developer to join the growing Bright Horizons Full-Service engineering team. Bright Horizons currently owns and operates over 700 daycare centers in the United States. The Full-Service line of business supports all activities related to serving parents who are enrolled at or seek enrollment at these centers. These activities include marketing to prospective parents, registering and enrolling children, supporting day-to-day operations, and providing analytics to the senior management team. The Senior Application Developer is the driving force behind the delivery of technical solutions for Mobile/Web Applications, Application integrations, and Back-end processes. Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company, trusted by families and employers around the world for high-quality child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace education. We partner with some of the world's best companies to provide services that help employees perform their best and support families to thrive both personally and professionally. In this role, Senior Application Developers will develop, document, and test software to ensure that the software meets the needs of end-users and achieves business goals. They will provide technical guidance to development teams and oversee the technical aspects of all projects. The position requires hands-on leadership in the application development, testing, and rollout of strategic Mobile initiatives. Developers will be responsible for developing back-end solutions for mobile applications, working with a hybrid internal/vendor team, to support various lines of business and functional areas of the organization based on the overall mobile applications strategy and needs provided. Collaboration with Business Owners and Business Analysis teams is essential to develop needs analysis and business requirements. Additionally, the role involves documenting technical requirements and specifications for Mobile applications and providing technical solutions to support those needs. Effective communication of project planning and status information to superiors is crucial, as well as delivering engaging, informative, and well-organized demos/presentations tailored to the intended audience.