Backend Software Engineer – Logistics & Warehouse Automation

ADP, Inc.; Town of West Seneca (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP, Inc. in West Seneca, NY is hiring a Backend Software Developer to maintain, expand, and improve server-side applications for the FourSquare warehouse automation platform.

You will work in a Microsoft DevOps environment, collaborating with internal teams to translate logistics requirements into reliable software. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and maintainability, with attention to data-access patterns, routing logic, and production support across warehouse operations.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline preferred; equivalent professional software development experience will be considered.
• Professional experience developing backend/server-side applications using Microsoft development technologies.
• Strong proficiency with C#, VB and the .NET development environment.
• Experience developing applications and services designed for reliable unattended operation.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, relational database concepts, SQL, and data-access technologies.
• Experience with modern software development and DevOps practices, including source control, automated builds, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software development, application architecture, debugging, and software design principles.
• Experience developing and troubleshooting integrations, APIs, services, or other system-to-system communications.
• Experience with A*, graph algorithms, pathfinding, routing, optimization, or similar algorithmic problems is beneficial.
• Experience with multithreaded, asynchronous, event-driven, or high-availability applications is beneficial.
• Experience with logistics, warehouse management, warehouse automation, material handling, robotics, inventory management, or related systems is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, and expand existing backend applications supporting the FourSquare platform and related logistics solutions.
• Develop reliable server-side software designed to operate continuously and unattended in production environments.
• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain application services, business logic, system processes, and integrations.
• Diagnose and resolve software defects, performance issues, processing failures, and other production application issues.
• Develop software with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, recoverability, logging, monitoring, and effective error handling.
• Work with Microsoft SQL Server to design and maintain database interactions, queries, stored procedures, and other data-access functionality.
• Participate in the company's DevOps development processes, including source control, code review, build, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Support and improve pathing and routing logic used by the FourSquare platform, with knowledge of graph/pathfinding algorithms helpful.
• Develop and maintain interfaces between FourSquare applications and other internal, customer, automation, or third-party systems.
• Collaborate with the web development team to define and support services and data for system visualization and user-facing applications.
• Translate real-world logistics requirements into effective application behavior, and document software architecture decisions.
• Develop automated tests and technical documentation to support reliable operation and future development.

Skills

C#

VB.NET

NET development

SQL Server

API integrations

DevOps

Multithreading

High availability

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

ADP, Inc. in West Seneca, NY is hiring a Backend Software Developer to maintain, expand, and improve server-side applications for the FourSquare warehouse automation platform.

You will work in a Microsoft DevOps environment, collaborating with internal teams to translate logistics requirements into reliable software. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and maintainability, with attention to data-access patterns, routing logic, and production support across warehouse operations.