Software Developer

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.**