Application Developer

The Opportunity:

Are you someone who enjoys designing, developing, and supporting mission critical applications? If so, this is a great opportunity for you to join the Application Development team at the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and make a meaningful impact on a small team. Yes, we’re a 100+ year old organization serving real estate – no, we’re not a stodgy 100+ year old organization serving real estate. In fact, we’re pretty cool (or so we think), and we’re a powerful voice for housing in California. We also think we’re an awesome company to work for. So here’s what you need to know about the job:

Job Title: Application Developer
Reports To: Application Development Manager
Group: Information Technology
Compensation Range: $75,000 to $124,000 per year

The Role:

We are seeking an Application Developer to join our strong and growing Information Technology group at the California Association of REALTORS® (C.A.R.). This person will work in a team to design, develop, and support mission critical applications. The ideal candidate would be an expert in .NET MVC development using C#, and have experience developing and interfacing with SQL Server databases.

The Application Developer creates, maintains, supports, extends and operates computer applications that serve the C.A.R. membership, the general public, and C.A.R. internal staff. The application portfolio is very broad ranging from communication tools to mobile applications, internal data processing applications, database applications, and applications that support our members’ specific business. The Application Developer is responsible for ensuring uninterrupted availability and proper performance of the applications delivered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Application Development:

  • Develop technical interfaces, specifications, and architecture.

  • Implement the applications in the appropriate technologies to support a high-quality application with mobile-optimized Responsive Web Design.

  • Integrate applications by designing database architecture and server side code; establishing connectivity with systems, search engines, and information servers.

  • Developer testing: automated unit and integration testing

• Requirements Gathering, Design, and Business Analysis:

  • Assist in the definition of application requirements by analyzing user requirements, prototyping system features and functionality.

  • Design and develop user interfaces to internet/intranet applications by setting expectations and features priorities throughout development life cycle; determining design methodologies and tool sets; completing programming using languages and software products; designing and conducting tests.

• Research, Development, Team Development:

  • Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.

  • Coordinate requirements, schedules, and activities, contribute to team meetings, and troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.

  • Provide support to colleagues and staff in the appropriate use of the solutions delivered. Conduct root cause analysis on customer issues and determine the best way to resolve them.

  • Assess new architectures and technologies and determine which to implement to achieve the best business result. Support users by developing documentation and assistance tools.

Minimum Qualifications:

• College degree in Information Technology or Computer Science related fields

• 3+ years of successful experience in a similar role with similar responsibilities

• 3+ years of experience supporting systems and related systems.

• 3+ years of experience in developing .NET MVC applications.

• Proficiency in C#

• SQL Server database and T-SQL code experience

• Knowledge of Persistence frameworks

• Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Knowledge of REST APIs

• Experience with Version Control systems (Git, SVN, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or familiarity with Content Management Systems

• Experience with Continuous Integration tools

• Familiarity with Python

The Ideal candidate will possess excellent analytical and organizational skills, be able to analyze problems in existing code and procedures and come up with appropriate solutions, adapt, learn and expand applications and processes as the business requires, make independent and appropriate decisions based on experience and fact without direct supervision, and remain up to date with terminology, concepts, and best practices for development.