Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer
8-Month Fixed Term Contract Limerick, Ireland
Through market-leading credential-driven privileges and innovative payments, Transact enables every aspect of student life across campus. We partner with institutions to deliver a mobile-centric, personalized student and family experience both on and off-campus. We are the only true enterprise-class cloud platform, enabling mission-critical capabilities that support student success by powering every aspect of campus life along with data for meaningful institutional insight. These mission-critical capabilities included integrated payments and personalized payment plans for tuition and fees, credential-driven transactions for comprehensive dining and retail transactions, uniquely configurable security driven privilege management as well as automated class attendance and campus events.
Transact solutions easily integrate with campus systems and external partners enabling an extensive and open ecosystem that extends existing institutional investment, accelerates innovation and delivers a frictionless personalized student experience.
The Opportunity:
Transact is searching for a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer to work on the Transact Insights web portal. The developer will be responsible for maintaining and adding functionality to Transact Insights, which presents data related insights through embedded Power BI reports to our clients. This portal is hosted in the Azure Cloud environments as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.
Responsibilities:
- Work as the full stack web developer within a SCRUM team of data and analytics professionals to understand and implement functionality for new solutions.
- Analyse problems and implement solutions that trade off architectural constraints of functionality, usability, performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Write and modify REST APIs using .NET frameworks in an n-tier distributed environment consumed from multiple cloud and on-prem environments.
- Design and implement modern web-based user interfaces using best practices to support new functionality (HTML5).
- Design and implement new databases and use other forms of storage to persist application data.
- Support the life cycle of the application during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post release.
- Comply with and contribute to consistent development guidelines (coding, change control, build, versioning).
- Participate in peer code reviews.
Required Skills:
- 3-5 years of experience in software development using HTML5, C# / .NET, Angular, Typescript.
- Experience in developing new solutions using modern JavaScript frameworks.
- User Interface design experience, familiarity with styling web interfaces using CSS, Bootstrap or similar packages.
- Experience working with relational database platforms.
- In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns such as Inversion of Control and SOLID object-oriented principles.
- Experienced with development of REST APIs.
- Solid understanding of test-driven development including mock object frameworks.
- Experience with one or more source control platforms such as Git.
- Experienced with continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts (Azure DevOps & Octopus).
- Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving skills and planning skills.
- Ability to understand technical requirements and decompose them into work tasks.
- Fluency in written and spoken English are required.
- Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum.
- Experience with code quality tools, such as SonarCloud.
- Experience with linting tools, such as SonarLint.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience developing applications for AWS, Azure, Google or other cloud platforms for large-scale, multi-tenant, SaaS organisations.
- Experience with Azure Functions.
- Experience with Azure APIM.
- Experience with containerized application development.
- Experience with NoSQL databases like Mongo, Cassandra.
- Experience with Flask, Django, R-shiny or caret.
This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Transact is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.
