Software Developer

Talascend is seeking a Staff Software Developer for a contract career opportunity with our client in Kansas City, MO.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer without sponsorship, now or in the future.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Staff Software Developer is responsible for ensuring our customers success by creating best-of-breed solutions to business challenges.  Software Developers daily responsibilities include: participating in Agile meetings, working with team members and architects to build and enhance systems and programs, performing code reviews, and working to support products as needed.
Taking commercial products from conception to market
Building software in a collaborative Agile environment
Writing unit tests, performing code reviews, and taking other steps to produce quality deliverables
Managing source code using Git
Producing code that aligns with best practices and improving overall code quality
Use creativity and analytical problem solving to build solutions
Design, test, deploy and maintain one or more software products
Collaborate with team members to produce quality software
Work with the architecture team to make technical recommendations

REQUIREMENTS:

Building testable, scalable software that can be deployed in a SaaS environment
The ability to build backend software in C#/Java or frontend software in JavaScript with minimal oversight
Being passionate about creating software
Ability to articulate rationale behind technical decisions
Responsible for assisting with application development and implementation on one or more computing platforms. 
Provide analysis of potential solutions and develops input for build or buy recommendations. 
Develops or maintain program code based on defined requirements. Develops requirements for application interfaces and conversions. 
Assists with defining and executing system test plans.
Responsible for all phases of project application development documentation. Responsible for following programming and documentation standards and development and project methodology.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, any Engineer discipline, or equivalent experience
At least 5 years full lifecycle development experience as a backend developer in C# or 5 years frontend development with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Aurelia, etc.)Experience with .Net core is required
At least 3 years experience with relational or NoSQL databases (SQL Server is highly preferred) and creating SQL statements
At least 3 years experience with HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap is required

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