Software Developer

Harris Computer•Remote - Missouri, MO

13d•$75,000 - $85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.
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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.