JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary:
NHA’s Application Development team builds and operates our proprietary, cloud-native Student Information System — the platform that 100+ schools and tens of thousands of students, families, and staff rely on every day. The Senior Software Engineer I leads well-scoped, moderately complex projects from design through production, and raises the bar for the engineers around them through mentorship and code review.
We build in a modern .NET (C#) service-oriented backend and an Angular/Nx front-end, deploy continuously through Azure DevOps, and modernize legacy systems as we go. As an AI-friendly team, we expect engineers to use modern AI development tools responsibly, with care for the student and staff data our systems handle.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and deliver features, enhancements, and fixes across NHA’s proprietary Student Information System and related custom applications, spanning the API, user interface, and data layers.
- Write secure, well-tested, and maintainable code in accordance with team standards, and support it in production.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and Agile ceremonies (e.g., SAFe/Scrum).
- Diagnose and resolve production issues in supported areas using application logs and observability tooling; provide production support as needed.
- Contribute to the ongoing modernization of legacy components onto NHA’s current technology stack.
- Use modern AI development tools responsibly to improve productivity and code quality, exercising sound technical judgment and safeguarding sensitive student and staff data.
- Collaborate with team members, product owners, quality assurance, and other stakeholders to plan and deliver complete solutions.
- Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of student and staff data in accordance with NHA policy and applicable law.
- Lead well-scoped, moderately complex projects within a system from design through delivery.
- Design feature- and project-level architecture, applying established patterns and weighing maintainability and testability.
- Own the quality and production health of delivered features, diagnosing and resolving issues from logs and observability.
- Mentor and review the work of less-experienced engineers.
- Coordinate with adjacent teams and stakeholders, and participate in the release-owner rotation.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency with a modern object-oriented back-end language and a modern front-end framework (NHA’s stack includes Microsoft .NET/C# and Angular/TypeScript).
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
- Experience with version control and CI/CD pipelines (NHA uses Git and Azure DevOps).
- Experience working on an Agile software development team (SAFe, Scrum, or similar).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- A collaborative, coachable, and accountable approach to teamwork.
- Broad proficiency across both front-end and back-end development (comfortable working full-stack).
- Strong technical judgment on trade-offs and a track record of owning projects to production.
- Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Experience with C#/.NET and Angular/TypeScript (our core stack) preferred.
- Experience with service-based architecture patterns and SQL performance preferred.
- Experience with modern identity (Okta / OpenID Connect) and production observability (Elastic APM) preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD in Azure DevOps and containerized services preferred.
This is an in-person position at our NHA Service Center located at 3850 Broadmoor Ave., Grand Rapids, MI.
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