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Senior Software Developer - Ruby (Hybrid)

Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Software Developer / Programmer for their Vancouver, WA location. In this position, you will assist in interpreting design specifications, assist in technical design, coding software, and following test and deployment procedures, complying with project documentation requirements, and working on a development team using a mix of development methodologies including Agile.

This hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits. If you believe this position aligns with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities for Senior Software Developer :

• Use existing standards, procedures and practices to design, code, test, deploy, configure, and support the outage system.
• Analyze, estimate, test, code, and deploy application / system changes under the prevailing change management procedures and requirements.
• Work directly with the Business and Technical Team to document and implement user stories / change requests.
• Work with compliance staff to verify that system remains in a compliant state including architecture and modeling the application.
• Productively integrate with an existing Agile development team.
• Serve a critical role as a programmer on an existing XP based development team.
• Attend and participate in team meetings (design, iteration planning, stand-up, etc.).
• Apply existing standards, procedures, and practices as appropriate.
• Collaborate with software developers, testers, and users throughout the System Development Life Cycle.
• Support North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) / Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) compliance by verifying adherence to standard requirements and documentation measures.
• May also participate as a programmer on other teams in support of the Transmission Technology business unit as needed.
• Provide emergency and backup support for existing systems and functions.
• Break down technical work into tasks and provide reasonable time estimates for completion.
• Review other developers’ code and provide technical constructive feedback where necessary to verify that the code follows
• programming best practices.
• Communicate status of project development work to project team, users, information system owners and others.
• Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long- term maintainability of the system.
• Identify and escalate technical bottlenecks and impediments to the project manager and information system owner.
• Produce required project technical documentation.

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