Role Name: Senior Developer
Location: Columbia, SC, 29219 (Onsite to start and then can move to partial once trained)
Duration: 6 Months (contract to hire)
Hours -
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM with a 1 hour lunch, flexible (Occasional off hours and weekends)
Job Description:
Duties:
- Responsible for analysis, design, programming, and implementation of the most complex applications tasks and projects in the area.
- Devise feasible, logical procedures to resolve business problems through the use of computer resources. Formulate scope and objectives through research to develop or modify complex systems.
- Provide technical direction and support in the development and support of business systems software and procedures.
- Design, code, test and debug the most complex application programs.
- 20% Provide expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. Conceive, design, and implement structures and programs to business systems software.
- 15% Act as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent providing expertise and technical guidance on complex projects. Work closely with customers, business analysts, and team members to determine business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. Ensure solutions are aligned with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization's architectural standards.
- 15% Provide design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy. Make recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code. Responsibilities may also include participation in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy versus build recommendations.
- 15% Perform analysis, design, programming, and implementation on systems and procedures to solve complex business or scientific problems. Develop enterprise-level applications and custom integration solutions. Evaluate complex interrelationships in immediate programming area to determine how changes in one program will affect another related area.
- 15% Develop programming and development standards. Devise new sources of data and develop new approaches and techniques.
- Involved in the full systems life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget.
- 15% Provide guidance to lower level programmers/analysts. Lead, plan, organize, and/or coordinate complex projects or phases of large projects. Determine and resolve problems with other systems analysts, programmers, and systems users. 5% Test designed programs, verify logic, perform any necessary "debugging," and write the documentation.
Skills:
- Advanced understanding of applications/development, quality assurance and integration methodologies, concepts and facilities in a mainframe, midrange, and/or PC/LAN environment.
- Demonstrates a high level of technical proficiency in the areas of programming languages, platform capabilities, and methods of systems analysis and program design.
- Advanced analysis, decision-making, and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrates logical abstract thinking and assimilating/adhering to project goals and deadlines.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. Able to work well under pressure and as part of a team. Extensive knowledge of interpersonal skills/team building.
- Familiar with project management concepts. Ability to assess requirements, alternatives, and risks/benefits for low- to high-impact projects. Pays attention to detail.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, clients, vendors etc. In-depth understanding of organizational functions, behavior, and inter-relationships.
- Minimum Required Software and Other Tools: Advanced knowledge of relevant operating systems, programming languages, and development tools and their usage in the company.
Day to Day:
- We operate in an agile Scrum environment with standard agile ceremonies.
- A typical day in this role involves a combination of Agile collaboration, production support, and action request fulfillment.
- The developer starts the day by attending Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups.
- Developers discuss ongoing production issues, action items, and coordinate with the team on priorities.
- Daily, we implement action requests which may include enhancements or configuration changes which are accomplished by analyzing both front-end and back-end code.
- We work with Spring MVC and JSP to understand UI behavior and use jQuery to troubleshoot or enhance client-side interactions.
- On the server side, we dive into Spring Data JPA and Hibernate to investigate data access logic and ensure smooth integration with the database.
- In the context of production support, we monitor logs, diagnose issues, and deploy fixes using tools like Jenkins, Git, and Splunk. Ability to navigate the full stack allows us to quickly identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
- We also document findings and collaborate with QA and DevOps to maintain system stability and improve future releases.
Work Environment:
Customer-focused, project-oriented programming environment. Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer.
Team Name:
Palmetto GBA, eCommerce department, eServices Portal
The Team:
The eServices portal group has three Scrum development teams of about 6 people each. We are currently working on Spring upgrades in addition to some user facing enhancements. The culture is collaborative, positive, and team oriented.
Job Requirement:
Minimum Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree-in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.
- Degree Equivalency: 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree Minimum
Required Work Experience:
- 8 years-of application development, systems testing or other job related experience.
Required Technologies:
Java, JavaScript, JSP, jQuery * Spring MVC, Hibernate, Spring Data JPA * SOAP, REST Web Services * GitHub
Nice To Have: * Spring Security * MQ * DevOps Gradle, Jenkins * Splunk
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Spectraforce Technologies
Sep 03, 2025