Senior Software Engineer

We have an opening for a Senior Software Engineer to join our development team. This is a contract position reporting to the Applications Development Manager. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded technical professional with strong communication and leadership skills.

• Experience designing software systems from ground up and becoming the subject matter and system expert
• Senior level lead engineer with expertise in web applications and infrastructure, .NET Core, relational databases, and design patterns
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to design, develop, test, support, maintain and debug software applications
• Establish and sustain relationships with high-profile executive stakeholders
• Ability to present complex technical information succinctly to a variety of audiences

• Engage in all development and database activities of the current system
• Collaborate in a team environment with other developers, management, and end users
• Participate in the full life cycle of development activities - define, develop, test, install, document, and maintain
• Maintain a source control and inventory system to ensure proper version control
• Create and maintain documentation, including data models, data dictionaries, stored procedures, functional and technical design documents, acceptance test plans, and production release schedules
• Translate system requirements into technical specifications, processes, and data mapping for existing system and system modifications
• Evaluate feasibility of enhancements requested by the user community
• Respond to upgrades needed to comply with new regulations
• Support activities and tickets with an internal Help Desk team that provides phone support to end users

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in developing web applications within the Microsoft stack (ASP.Net Core, C#/VB.Net)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, ASP.NET Core 6 with MVC Framework, ASP.NET Core Web API, and Entity Framework Core 6 in Windows 10/Windows Server 2022, IIS 10, and Angular
• Experience designing enhanced and rich user interfaces using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap 5.1, and related libraries
• Experience with third-party libraries (e.g., Log4net, HTML Sanitizer, Expressive Annotations, DotNet Zip, Duo Universal, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Telerik controls and related reporting services
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Principles, concepts and best practices
• Familiar with source control tools, preferably Visual Studio Team Foundation
• Ability to write architectural and design documents

• Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server 2019, SQL Server Management Studio, and SSRS
• Writing queries as well as insert/update/delete SQL statements
• Expertise in database management via direct updates, embedded SQL and dynamic SQL (e.g., stored procedures)
• Ability to document database design (ER diagrams, data flows)
• Experience transforming business requirements into data objects and relationships
• Understanding of database principles - entities, relationships, normalization
• Experience writing stored procedures, indexes, triggers, functions, joins, views, and packages

• Ability to interface with non-technical users
• Experience with customer service, IT help desk, or focus groups is a plus
• Team leadership and mentorship; experience directing more junior developers is a plus
• Familiar with Angular, CSS and responsive application design

The person in this role will spend the first 6 weeks onsite, 5 days a week, in our Boston office. After this orientation period, the role will be in a hybrid onsite schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week at the same Boston location. The role could revert to full-time onsite in Boston at any time. Candidates must live locally to Boston; remote candidates will not be considered. Restricted time-off periods are determined by management around critical support needs and may require onsite work outside normal business hours, including evenings and weekends.