Senior Software Developer

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.  Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for four years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it. 
Position Description: As a member of the Technology team, the Senior Software Developer will play a crucial role in delivering modern, web-based software based in the Microsoft Stack of technologies (Including Angular, REST API, .NET Core, Entity Framework core, SQL Server).  Must be enthusiastic about working in a team environment, quality, and unit testing - we aim to get it right the first time!  The successful candidate has experience creating scalable solutions and delivering high quality software for KPA’s Software as a Service (SaaS) products. The Sr. Software Developer will be responsible for the following:

In the first 2 weeks, you will:

• Have a running development environment confirmed by successfully building the code base for the existing product.
• Accept, estimate, develop and test a set of low-priority defects associated with one product.
• Have the solutions peer reviewed and passed prior to check-in

In the first 30 days, you will:

• Have a minimum of two features ready for delivery following the defined development process and deploy the features to production.
• Contribute towards the planning, tasking, execution and delivery as defined by an agile development environment that includes reporting time against tasks, estimation of effort, code reviews and commitment to delivery.

In the first 90 days, you will:

• Demonstrate development productivity and quality on par with the other team members through the daily input of status information. All developed code will be highly scalable, high-quality, object-oriented, and comply with KPA standards.
• Demonstrate either the ability to design and develop: a) rich user interfaces using standard compliant technologies, b) C# service/business/data layers and other distributed processing components, c) back-end tools to help with builds, deployments, troubleshooting.

In the first 6 months, you will:

• Collaborate with team members, project managers, product managers and other senior executives on identifying and documenting the technical tasks.
• Contribute to the analysis, solution designs and implementations of major new system components

By the end of the first year you will have:

• Demonstrated functional knowledge of KPA’s SaaS platform to the point of leading feature development for multiple components of the platform
• Provide mentorship and guidance toother team members on technology, design, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Senior-level experience (7+ years) with .Net Stack - C# Visual Web Development, .net CORE, Entity Framework core, SQL Server
• Expert in REST API architecture patterns
• Experience in enterprise software using Object Oriented programming, n-tier design, and service-oriented architecture
• Angular experience desired, experience with SPA applications required (Rxjs and Reactive Forms)
• Experience developing and designing rich user experience (JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, HTML, XML)
• Passionate about unit testing – Xunit and Jasmine frameworks
• Experience working in a scrum environment with well defined definition of done
• Experience with Git or other source control systems.
• Committed to deliver great software solutions, with a deep sense of personal ownership and passion for working with all types of Software Developers and QA Analysts
• Work ethic that corresponds with KPA’s core values: Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Restpectful, Teamwork
• Experience with build automation tools and continuous integration & continuous delivery (with VSTS/Azure DevOps) a plus
• Experience building applications in a cloud environment is a plus.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• Creative and passionate about cutting edge technologies and continuous personal and team improvement
• Desir