Senior Application Developer

ERCOT•Taylor, TX

12d•$109,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At ERCOT, our diverse and dynamic work environment provides a platform on which employees can work together to build the future of the Texas power grid and wholesale market utilizing the latest technologies and resources. We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world-class solutions for today and tomorrow’s energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career. ERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at all levels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverse workforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future. JOB SUMMARY Designs, codes, tests, documents and maintains applications to meet ERCOT business needs based on the ERCOT defined Software Development Life Cycle. Works closely with customers, business area subject matter experts, team members and other internal technical teams to design, develop and maintain complex ERCOT applications in support of market needs and internal corporate requirements. Uses toolsets that adhere to the frameworks of the technical stack used across the Application Services division and ensures that products and solutions comply with the organization’s architectural standards. The Applications Developer works with ERCOT business partners to design, develop and support complex business applications and tools.

Requirements

Experience with modern integration patterns/event based architectures e.g. messaging/streaming
Modern LTS Java experience (Java 17, 21, 25)
Modern Spring Boot experience (Spring Boot 3.x, 4.x)
Container based development experience
"DevOps" experience (packaging applications, writing deployment/operational automation, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines)
Experience building, scaling, developing observability for, and troubleshooting high volume/high performance data handling applications
Experience building relational database backed application
Sr level: Requires minimum 5 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements.
Lead: Requires minimum 8 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements

Nice To Haves

Experience with Apache Kafka and/or JMS/AMQP
Kubernetes experience specific to OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes Service
Container experience specific to Docker Desktop/Docker Compose
Fedora OS family experience (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, RockyLinux)
Configuration Management/Provisioning experience with tools like Ansible and Terraform
GitHub/GitHub Actions experience.
Azure experience. Cloud experience in general will suffice.
Generally strong SQL experience. Specifically experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

Designs, codes, tests, documents and maintains applications to meet ERCOT business needs based on the ERCOT defined Software Development Life Cycle.
Works closely with customers, business area subject matter experts, team members and other internal technical teams to design, develop and maintain complex ERCOT applications in support of market needs and internal corporate requirements.
Uses toolsets that adhere to the frameworks of the technical stack used across the Application Services division and ensures that products and solutions comply with the organization’s architectural standards.
Works with ERCOT business partners to design, develop and support complex business applications and tools.
Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code.
Learns to understand business and customer requirements that drive the analysis and design of technical solutions.
Under supervision participates in all phases of product development lifecycle, including the analysis, design, test and integration of products.
Helps develop design specifications and parameters that are in compliance with products’ architectural blueprints.
Helps research, evaluate and incorporate new technology and tools to enhance the product development process.
Resolves customer complaints with products and responds to suggestions for improvement and enhancements.
May assist in development of product user manuals.
Assists in defining the overall technical development goals of the team.
Assists with providing code statistics, development metrics (i.e. development cycle time), and assisting in the implementation and maintenance f a standardized development methodology.
Interfaces with several key groups in the company to ensure quality product delivery (example, project managers, application and technical architects, usability engineers, other development groups, business end users, and external users as appropriate).
Maintains and may enhance proficiency in key technical areas.
Conducts all phases of product development lifecycle, including the analysis, design, testing and integration of products.
Participates in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy vs. build recommendations.
Supplies input and insight in development of product user manuals.
Provides code statistics, development metrics (i.e. development cycle time), and assisting in the implementation and maintenance of a standardized development methodology.
Conducts component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, and product evaluation.
Researches, evaluates and incorporates new technology and tools to enhance the product development process.
Develops and revises product user manuals.
Gives advice and recommendations to management for the overall technical development goals of the web team.
Advises and guides several key groups in the company to ensure quality product delivery (example, project managers, application and technical architects, usability engineers, other development groups, business end users, and external users as appropriate).
Expands technical proficiency in key technical areas.
Serves as a Subject Matter Expert providing guidance to other team members.
May schedule work, train, mentor, and/or coach other employees.
Conveys team goals effectively through strong written and verbal communication skills.
Works on moderately complex issues where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Has the ability to resolve issues in creative and effective ways.