Senior Software Developer

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.

Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

YOU

As a Senior Software Developer with a .NET focus, you will be responsible for designing, modifying and developing software programming applications, ensuring customer satisfaction is met by all team members.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING (% of Time)

Develop technical architectures, design patterns, and implementation plans for all team members to implement. (30%)

Be an integral part of the application development team, with special emphasis on implementing the business logic and data access layer of application code (C#, ASP.NET, etc.). Review, analyze and modify existing proprietary applications to correct errors, improve performance and add new features while exceeding coding standards. (30%)

Mentor software developers and associate software developers in sound pattern based technical decisions. (20%)

Troubleshoot and fix production issues found by customers and internal consultants, reported by software support team. (10%)

Attend Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retros as part of the Agile Scrum software development lifecycle. (10%)

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

If you can do everything listed above, you’ve got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or technology, information systems or software engineering course of study or have relevant experience.
• Strong proficiency in data structures and algorithms
• 6+ years developing with C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and AspNetCore/MVC
• Solid experience designing and implementing RESTful Web Services
• UI development using React and Typescript
• Hands-on experience building OAuth 2.0 based services to provide authorization and authentication capabilities, access token exchange mechanism for Rest APIs
• Experience using design patterns such as dependency inversion via dependency injection required
• Strong ability to start and lead a project from inception to completion required
• Ability to break down high level requirements into technical specifications for implementation required
• Experience with automated unit testing such as xUnit, nUnit, Selenium (E2E tests)
• Strong proficiency with Git SCM
• Communication: Ability to write in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience. Ability to effectively present information to groups of managers, team members and customers
• Teamwork: Ability to build and sustain cooperative working relationships
• Organization: The ability to arrange resources to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify the information needed to solve problems effectively
• Composure: Ability to stay calm and in control in tense or frustrating situations
• Customer Focus: Ability to cultivate relationships that secure commitment and trust with external and internal customer needs
• Action Oriented: Ability to willingly take practical action to deal with a problem or situation in a timely manner
• Perseverance: Ability to do something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success
• Time Management: Ability to organize and prioritize assigned tasks
• JIRA/Confluence preferred
• Agile development preferred
• Familiarity with Azure deployment preferred
• Thorough knowledge of residential home building practices preferred
• Experience with PowerShell preferred

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment characteristics 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