[Hiring] Backend Software Developer @Sonwil Distribution Center Inc

Role Description

The Backend Software Developer is responsible for maintaining, improving, and expanding the server-side applications supporting the company's FourSquare Solutions warehouse automation platform. This position will focus on the continued development, performance, reliability, and maintainability of these applications.

• Maintain, enhance, and expand existing backend applications supporting the FourSquare platform and related logistics solutions.
• Develop reliable server-side software designed to operate continuously and unattended in production environments.
• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain application services, business logic, system processes, and integrations.
• Diagnose and resolve software defects, performance issues, processing failures, and other production application issues.
• Develop software with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, recoverability, logging, monitoring, and effective error handling.
• Work with Microsoft SQL Server to design and maintain database interactions, queries, stored procedures, and other data-access functionality.
• Participate in the company's DevOps development processes, including source control, code review, build, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Support and improve pathing and routing logic used by the FourSquare platform.
• Develop and maintain interfaces between FourSquare applications and other internal, customer, automation, or third-party systems.
• Collaborate with the web development team to define and support the services and data required for system visualization and user-facing applications.
• Work with operational and technical personnel to understand warehouse processes and translate real-world logistics requirements into effective application behavior.
• Develop appropriate automated tests and technical documentation to support reliable software operation and future development.
• Participate in application architecture and technical design decisions as the FourSquare platform continues to evolve.
• Support production implementations and troubleshooting, including occasional travel to project or customer sites when on-site support is necessary.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and development practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline preferred; equivalent professional software development experience will be considered.
• Professional experience developing backend or server-side applications using Microsoft development technologies.
• Strong proficiency with C#, VB and the .NET development environment.
• Experience developing applications and services designed for reliable unattended operation.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, relational database concepts, SQL, and data-access technologies.
• Experience with modern software development and DevOps practices, including source control, automated builds, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software development, application architecture, debugging, and software design principles.
• Experience developing and troubleshooting integrations, APIs, services, or other system-to-system communications.
• Experience with A*, graph algorithms, pathfinding, routing, optimization, or similar algorithmic problems is beneficial.
• Experience with multithreaded, asynchronous, event-driven, or high-availability applications is beneficial.
• Experience with logistics, warehouse management, warehouse automation, material handling, robotics, inventory management, or related systems is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand both software behavior and the real-world processes the software controls or supports.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with software developers, technical resources, operations personnel, and other subject matter experts.
• Strong attention to software quality, reliability, maintainability, and documentation.
• Remote candidates may be considered but must be willing and able to travel to company, project, or customer sites when required.

Requirements

• Ability to work for extended periods at a computer workstation in a software development environment.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with team members in both remote and on-site environments.
• Ability to occasionally access warehouse, industrial, and automation environments for implementation, testing, troubleshooting, or operational observation.
• Ability to safely work in active warehouse and industrial environments while following applicable safety requirements.
• Ability to travel occasionally to company facilities, project sites, or customer locations as required.

Direct Reports

No direct reports are expected.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm