Job Description
Job title: Web Programmer Analyst III
Locations: Houston , TX
Job Summary:
- Designs, develops, tests, maintains and enhances application software programs for the retail energy industry. Mentors and shepherds younger developers in the best practices of software development.
- Must possess excellent communication skills as you will interact directly with our customers to determine requirements and deliver quality software which exceeds their expectations.
- Must have a strong desire to deliver defect-free, well-designed, and well-tested software.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Follow the team's Scrum development life cycle practices.
- Work independently for design, development and testing.
- Collaborate with team members to identify and prioritize/reprioritize work when necessary
- Facilitate requirements gathering efforts and clearly document system requirements.
- Develop strong working relationships with individuals at all levels of the company
- Anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks while eliminating roadblocks within control.
- Use appropriate change control procedures for implementing software enhancements.
- Remain abreast of current technologies and best practices as applicable to NRG.
- Conduct unit, functional, and integration testing to ensure application reliability.
Working Conditions:
- Team work environment in cube or open work area.
- Duties are performed during standard business hours and overtime based on project requirements.
- Must be willing to work longer hours as necessary, especially during critical issue resolution.
- Will need to attend meetings and respond to application problems for short durations at other corporate sites when necessary. These locations are in Philadelphia, PA and Houston, TX.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant business discipline from an accredited four-year college or university or equivalent work experience is preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years professional application development and operation experience in a production setting working on Corporate-enterprise applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have solid experience developing web applications using open source technologies.
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Thorough understanding of Python Development
- Experience with Python Metaclasses, Django, Flask and Celery.
- Strong knowledge of .NET development, with an emphasis on C# .Net core using Entity Framework.
- Working knowledge of concurrency and multi-threading in long running daemon processes.
- In-depth understanding of Relational Database Management software, preferably PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL Server.
- Experienced in testing software all the way from unit testing to system testing to integration testing.
- A strong desire to build well-tested software.
- Strong knowledge of version control software, git preferred.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular EC2, EBS, S3, and SQS is a big plus.
- Understanding of batch oriented and event based systems is a plus.