Senior Application Developer

Job Summary

The Senior Application Developer focuses on enterprise integration, application development tools, Microsoft .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server, to create, test, implement, and maintain applications in-house. This role utilizes demonstrated experience in troubleshooting problems, product improvement, and effective communication with both IT and business partners.

The Senior Application Developer delivers secure applications based upon business requirements. This role must proactively deliver successful solutions, including helping define requirements, application development and deployment, implementing best practices, supporting testing efforts, and providing documentation while working with business units. This role is also responsible for proactively providing project tasks and status updates. The roles may provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members.

The Senior Application Developer reports to the Manager, Member Systems.

About UFCU

Our Credit Union was founded in 1936 and has grown to serve members throughout Texas and beyond. At UFCU, we are more than just a financial institution, and our people are more than just employees. We are dedicated to our purpose of empowering our Members to achieve financial success and build brighter futures.

In pursuit of our aspiration that UFCU is loved by millions of Members and built to thrive for generations, we are guided by our values:

Purposefully Member-Obsessed

We are driven by a profound sense of empathy to deeply understand our Members’ needs and

preferences, what brighter futures means to them, and the obstacles in their way. We act in our

Members’ best interests, forever seeking to empower their financial success.

Possibilities Reimagined

We are inspired to courageously experiment, learn, and iterate in pursuit of positive impact for our Members, UFCU, and coworkers. We challenge assumptions, embrace diverse perspectives, and make use of data and insights.

Performance Excellence Rooted in Unwavering Integrity

We do the right thing, always. We champion teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and celebrate successful outcomes of others, fostering an inclusive environment of excellence and collaboration.

Essential Functions

Application Oversight

• Application development: seamless third-party integration; secure coding practices, performance analysis, streamlining applications.
• Application maintenance: debugging, troubleshooting and log monitoring including legacy applications, resolution of critical production bugs
• Contributing to creation of application road maps
• Participating in peer reviews

Analysis, Design and Testing

• Analysis and modeling: development deliverables such as data flow diagrams, class diagrams etc.
• Unit testing: Domain driven testing, contribute to test plan development, installation and execution.
• Architectural design: interface/application design, and optimum performance.

• Contributes to the selection of developer tools

Collaboration

• Create and communicate documentation, unit testing follow-up, change management participation.
• Contributes to setting the development standards; documentation, test automation, build and deployment process

Other

• Adhere to all company policies, procedures, and business ethics codes
• Complete required regulatory training as assigned
• Maintain strict adherence to and compliance with all laws, rules, regulations, and internal controls specific to the role, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, USA Patriot Act, OFAC and Fair Lending regulations

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of agile software development practices and methodologies
• Advanced knowledge of UI/UX design principles and best practices
• Strong knowledge of cloud services, such as Azure, and APIs

Skills

• Advanced analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Advanced organizational, process management, and time management skills, with the ability to proactively and consistently meet deadlines without supervision
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, collaborative, and active listening communication skills

Abilities

• Strong ability to effectively communicate with both IT and business partners
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and inspire teams
• Ability to deliver high-quality, well-designed code that is clean and easy for others to maintain
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to engage in problem-solving skills to help identify and resolve issues

Competencies

• Demonstrating Member Obsession

• Puts themselves in the Member’s shoes
• Looks for friction points
• Makes it personalized and easy

• Demonstrating Performance Excellence

• Sets standards for elevating excellence
• Ensures elevated quality
• Takes responsibility
• Conducts continuous improvement

• Demonstrating Innovation

• Challenges current thinking
• Approaches change with a positive mindset

Experience

Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent

• Minimum six (6) years of .NET C# development experience
• Minimum six (6) years of backend API and database development experience
• Experience building RESTful services using current version of Web API, C#, or other leading web services platforms
• Experience with:
• Working with source control such as Github, or Bitbucket
• Docker or containerization
• Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Entity Framework Core code first for database management
• Using distributed application frameworks like MassTransit
• Experience leading/mentoring less experienced team members
• Experience with the latest industry trends, tools and best coding practices
• Must be bondable

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field. Years of experience may substitute for degree requirement.

• Experience building modern, responsive applications using current version .NET Core and AngularJS platform
• Experience with:
• Command Query Responsibility Segregation patterns (CQRS)
• Web application-specific security issues and mitigation
• Dependency injection, Autofac container
• Front end or full stack development
• Microservices Architecture
• Java Spring Boot
• Experience working for a financial institution

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Employee will make extensive use of the telephone and virtual communications requiring the ability to effectively and accurately explain complex information.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• This position is available to work from home 50% of the time. This schedule may change at UFCU’s discretion and as business needs dictate.
• This position may involve periodic stressful conditions.
• May occasionally require an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation up to two hours at a time.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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