Sr. Application Developer

About the position

The Sr. Application Developer is a highly technical professional who has complete, end-to-end ownership of integration projects that unite platforms supporting our Digital Portals, Operations, and Agency Processing, which service hundreds of thousands of customers daily. The incumbent builds products across the stack and utilizes understanding of APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages, and web frameworks. The Sr. Application Developer sits on a highly technical team that uses new technology to solve challenges for both the front-end and back-end architecture, ultimately delivering amazing experiences for our partners and customers. Position sits in West Des Moines and will work an onsite hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation and development of applications supporting our Digital and Operations platforms.
• Designs and provides guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale.
• Collaborates with team members and other project stakeholders to jointly build comprehensive application solutions.
• Provides guidance and code reviews to less senior members of the development team.
• Collaborates across time zones via video conferencing and software such as Microsoft Teams, Jira, and GitHub.
• Sees through a project from conception to finished product.
• Codes, tests, and debugs new and existing applications.
• Creates comprehensive application documentation.
• Provides weekly status reports on all completed, ongoing and future projects.
• Works with stakeholders to understand business requirements that are translated into technical solutions.
• Provides guidance to other developers as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration or related field of study.
• Four (4) plus years of software development experience.
• Experience in leading the development and execution of web/online/mobile solutions, systems, and products.
• Experience with project management using Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum).
• Experience in unit/integration testing.

Nice-to-haves

• Web Development Certification.