Staff Software Developer

the Client•Kansas City, MO

25d•Onsite

About The Position

The growth and evolution of infrastructure demands coupled with a rapidly changing technological landscape presents significant opportunities to those companies that have the focus and foresight to solve some of society's most complex challenges. One area of focus is equipping clients and the workforce with superior data-driven decision-making capability, establishing a technology position focused on full stack software development. The Full Stack Developer will be tasked with executing projects and leading engineering teams to tackle key data-driven technology initiatives. This position will report to the BMcD Innovation and Development Manager and will work collaboratively with the national BMcD Innovation & Development team. We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back-end programming. Responsibilities include participating in user interviews, developing and designing front end web user interfaces from a composable architecture, integrating existing data sets and models, developing and maintaining semantically driven object ontologies, and ensuring the responsiveness of applications, among other duties. This position will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

Requirements

Strong knowledge in programming languages and coding principles and procedures.
Strong knowledge in web development framework.
Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment.
Effective written and oral communication skills.
Demonstrated critical thinking skills.
Strong knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PPT).
Ability to obtain applicable certifications.
Team leadership experience.
4 years of relevant experience required.

Nice To Haves

Palantir Foundry experience preferred.
Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript preferred.
Familiarity with JavaScript libraries such as Lodash, Math.js, Moment, Numeral, and es6-shim preferred.
Proficiency with server-side languages for structured data processing; Python, PySpark, Java, Apache Spark, and SparkSQL preferred.
Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and others preferred.
Familiarity with analytical tools for business intelligence and data science such as Power BI, Jupyter, and R Studio preferred.
Strong organizational and project management skills preferred.

Responsibilities

Participation in user interviews to understand technical and customer needs.
Developing front end website architecture based on Palantir Foundry.
Designing user interactions on web pages within Palantir Foundry Workshop.
Developing back-end code logic that leverages semantic object linking (ontologies) within Palantir Foundry Pipeline Builder, Code Workbook, and Ontology Manager.
Creating servers, databases, and datasets for functionality as needed.
Ensuring health of data connections and pipelines (utilizing filesystem, JDBC, SFTP, and webhook).
Ensuring conformance with security protocols and markings on sensitive data sets.
Ensuring responsiveness of web applications developed on low code/no code solutions.
Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
Seeing through projects from conception to finished product.
Meeting both technical and customer needs.
Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
Lead other engineers to develop features on your projects.