Software Developer

About this role

As a Senior Software Developer at Harris ERP, you write and review code every week, make sound architectural calls, and help lead a small team, including local and overseas developers, as we continue investing in and evolving our offerings. This role reports directly to the VP of Research & Development and works closely with product, QA, TechOps and other teams across the Harris ERP portfolio.

RESPONSIBILITIES Hands-On Engineering: • Develop and execute strategies to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Customer Support department, aligned with company objectives and customer needs. • Collaborate with the VP of Operations to define operational goals, develop KPIs, and create roadmaps to achieve targets.

Technical Leadership: • Design, build, and ship production code using modern Java frameworks and enterprise-grade engineering practices. You’ll be expected to stay in the codebase, not just review it. • Own non-trivial pieces of the modernization effort end to end: from technical design through code review, testing, and production rollout. • Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance modernization goals against delivery timelines and the realities of a live, revenue-generating product.

Team Leadership & Collaboration: • Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and technical mentorship to a small team of local and overseas developers, setting priorities, unblocking work, and holding a consistent quality bar across time zones. • Partner with the VP of R&D on staffing needs, performance feedback, and career growth conversations for your teammates; formal HR actions (hiring, compensation, formal reviews) are owned by the VP, with your direct input. • Build working rhythms, async updates, documentation habits, and review cadences that make distributed collaboration with overseas developers effective.

AI-Enabled Delivery: • Use, and help your team use, AI coding assistants and agentic tools as a standing part of your own workflow for scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, and code review. • Identify where MCP-based tooling and AI agents can replace brittle flat-file integrations or manual operational work. • Provide timely operational reporting to support ongoing validation of current and newly implemented processes.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE After 6 Months: • You've shipped meaningful, production-quality contributions to the codebase and understand the CitySuite platform well enough to make independent design calls. • You've built a working relationship with the local and overseas developers on your team, with clear expectations and a review process everyone understands. • You've identified at least one area of the platform ready for modernization and proposed — or implemented — its replacement.

After 12 Months: • You own a meaningful slice of the platform in production — architecture, code quality, and operational health included. • The patterns and standards you've set are visible in the team's code, and newer or outsourced developers are ramping up faster because of documentation and mentorship you've put in place. • AI-assisted workflows are a normal part of how your team ships code, and you can point to concrete time saved or quality improved as a result.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS - REQUIRED • A track record of designing and shipping production-grade backend services in Java or a comparable modern, statically-typed language. We care about what you've built, not a specific year count. • Experience owning REST API design and integration work in a real production system. • Experience providing technical direction or mentorship to other developers, formally or informally, including reviewing others' code and helping them grow. • Comfort working directly with distributed or outsourced development teams across time zones, with strong async, written communication. • Active, hands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of your regular development workflow. • Solid grounding in relational database design and SQL.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS - PREFERRED • Experience building software within an AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC), or contributing to a team that has adopted one. • Direct experience with Quarkus, Jakarta EE, Hibernate, MapStruct, and/or Lombok. • Experience modernizing or migrating a legacy Java monolith (Java EE, GlassFish, or similar) to a modern framework. • Experience collaborating with a React front-end team or contributing to a React codebase. • Background in ERP, GovTech, or other regulated/public-sector software. • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or building AI-integrated tooling and agents. • SQL Server experience specifically. • Experience with Data-tier Application Package (DACPAC). • Familiarity with Container Engines such as Podman, Docker or similar technologies.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS • Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; we're flexible here if your project history speaks for itself. • Demonstrated experience as a senior-level developer, including some exposure to guiding or mentoring other engineers. • Ability to work core hours that overlap with both a US-based team and overseas developers.

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT • Prior experience leading or mentoring outsourced/offshore developers specifically, not just distributed US teams. • A past legacy-to-modern migration you can talk through in detail (what broke, what you'd do differently, how you kept the lights on during the transition). • Contributions to internal tooling, libraries, or documentation that measurably improved a team's delivery speed. • Curiosity about applying AI agents to problems beyond code generation, support tooling, data migration, testing, or operations.

Salary range: $75,000 - $85,000 USD per year.

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