SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

Responsible for writing web based applications and software.

Position Purpose: This is a position based in Homestead, Pennsylvania for the purpose of designing and building our suite of industry-leading SaaS web and mobile applications for driving continuous performance improvement, certification management and lifelong learning in healthcare. The person selected for this position will be responsible for designing and building innovative web and mobile applications that our customers will love. All software engineers have an opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of our products. Successful candidates are enthusiastic about the latest web technologies and are capable of translating high-level, ambiguous business goals to working software solutions. You must be comfortable taking initiative and working across teams on high visibility projects.

This position will design, code, repair, enhance, integrate, upgrade, convert, provide level-3 support, and administer application software, and middleware. Work is performed within guidelines and standards set by management regarding the development life cycle, version control, source code control, documentation, testing, code verification, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automation, compliance policies and team collaboration.

This level of software engineer should know software concepts, procedures, and best practices and apply them on a daily basis to meet deliverables. They should have a full grasp of Programming Concepts. In addition, they will work on most stories independently with minimal supervision; however they don’t have a full grasp of the big picture, nor the full software development life cycle. They have full latitude for independent judgment when applying skills and problem-solving capabilities, with oversight required by senior team members. They update their job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations.

This position collaborates with the development team, QA, Security, collaborative groups/clients and other cross-functional teams to define, provide for, and test deliverables.

Application Development & Maintenance:

• Develop could-based applications for performance improvement, quality reporting, and lifelong learning.

• Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software programming applications. 

• Responsible for application software development efforts from deployment through maintenance support process.

• Design, develop and maintain the operation of database-driven ASP.NET/c#/MVC/JavaScript web applications with an emphasis on usability, performance, and scalability.

• Participant in full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters and a dynamic, fast-paced, agile environment. 

• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.

• Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility

• Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software against aggressive schedules

Project Management:

• Manages tasks and execution against project plans and delivery commitments. Responsible for individual results.

• Work closely with team lead and manager to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Creative problem solving is a must. Designs and defines the interaction between the other component pieces.

Application Maintenance & Management:

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features.

Type of Experience:

• Progressive, related application development experience.

• Experience in the following technical areas with demonstrated proficiency: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC software development and participation in successful production software deployments. Experience with single page apps, Javascript frameworks (e.g. Angular.JS), WEB API (REST), JSON, HTML.

• Software Design / Development and has coded many applications used for business.  

• Relational Database Concepts.

• Databases (schema).

• SQL, Database query tools.

• SDLC/ADLC Methodologies.

• Experience analyzing data solving problems and troubleshooting to provide solutions.

• Experience in entire application development process, specifically Agile.

Special Certifications, Licensure or Technical Skills:

ASP.NET 4.5+, Visual Studio .NET 2012+, C#, MVC 4+, Web API (REST), HTML, jQuery, JavaScript, Angular.JS, JavaScript frameworks, CSS, SQL Server 2012+, SQL, MSMQ, SOA, caching, scalable web applications, design patterns.

Preferred: Advanced knowledge of object-oriented design, programming, data structures, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, c#, MVC, HTML, jQuery, Javascript frameworks (e.g. Angular.JS), SQL Server, REST and web applications.

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