Tyler Technologies Careers

Description

An Application Engineer is a professional who develops customized software programs for internal staff and collaborates with development teams to create complex and sophisticated software applications.

Responsibilities

• Participate in agile processes and ceremonies to collaborate with the team to define stories, identify tasks, estimates, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in analyzing, designing, writing, and testing code, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems. This is completed in accordance with customer requirements and organizational methodologies and standards for new application development as well as existing system enhancements.
• Participate in new application development and existing system enhancements by coding system features according to system designs.
• Maintain existing application programs by fixing bugs or clearing up operational deficiencies in both previously released software and software slated for future release.
• Assure program, module and system integrity through thorough testing and adherence to company standards and procedures.
• Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including research, design, analysis, requirements, implementation, test automation, and maintenance.
• Utilize new technologies and tools to modify products and provide integration with applications developed internally and externally.
• Prepare and modify program and system documentation.
• Collaborate with more experienced team members to ensure knowledge transfer and training are successfully meeting department goals.
• Achieve departmental goals and timelines.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Complexity: Must be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to take increasingly difficult assignments and successfully implement it with little or no help from more senior resources.
• Develop programs that are moderate to complex in nature, adhering to established departmental standards.
• Learn and implement new technologies and architectures within a reasonably quick timeframe while producing and testing high-quality software.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and work experience.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of required programming languages.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of the technical/business environment.
• Effectively partner, communicate, and negotiate with business analyst, development, and support groups in order to clarify and implement business requirements.
• Work on individual components that are part of a much larger application suite.
• Adapt to changing products and technologies.
• Fix bugs in existing software under considerable time constraints in support of service level requirements.
• Manage and prioritize conflicting tasks and interruptions so as to minimize their impact on the current deadlines and workload.

 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or comparable work experience.
• Typically, three or more years of software development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated strong knowledge of software development practices, computer science theory, and understanding of relevant technologies.
• Relevant Technologies:
  • C# (or similar high level language)
  • .NET Core and MVC
  • Web API 2+
  • Angular
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Entity Framework
  • GitHub

• Experience writing and testing code to meet strict deadlines.
• Demonstrated understanding of product architecture and underlying technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of development process.
• Demonstrated experience with data modeling tools, web services and/or service oriented architecture.
• Ability to work well both independently and within a team environment.
• Solid negotiation with various parties to ensure enhancements to applications are addressed while maintaining/balancing business situations and constrictions.
• Well-developed logical thinking and reasoning skills.
• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced, technical environment.
• Keen attention to detail.