Junior Application Developer: Mentored Growth & Ownership

Communications Engineering Company (CEC); Hiawatha (IA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Communications Engineering Company (CEC) is hiring an entry-level software support developer to help build and improve applications, reports, and automations across our platform. You will learn directly from a senior developer through structured onboarding, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on projects.

You will contribute to resolving issues, supporting ConnectWise PSA and Dynamics platforms, and creating small tools using .NET, SQL, Power BI, and Power Automate.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, software development, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 0-3 years of experience from employment, internships, technical support, academic projects, or other hands‑on learning.
• A foundation in software development concepts, relational databases, and application troubleshooting.
• Curiosity, persistence, and a methodical approach to solving unfamiliar problems.
• Clear communication with technical and non‑technical users.
• A willingness to ask questions, receive feedback, document what you learn, and grow into greater responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Help employees resolve application errors, access issues, data problems, and integration failures.
• Support business platforms such as ConnectWise PSA, Microsoft Dynamics GP and Business Central, SmartConnect, SharePoint, Power BI, and Power Automate.
• Create and improve smaller applications, scripts, utilities, reports, automations, and integrations.
• Use SQL queries and basic data analysis to investigate technical issues.
• Work with APIs and help troubleshoot data moving between business systems.
• Participate in testing, release validation, source control, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Document solutions, configurations, field mappings, and support procedures.
• Take on larger development and application-ownership responsibilities as your skills grow.

Skills

C#/.NET development

SQL & relational DBs

APIs / integrations

Microsoft 365 / SharePoint

Power BI reporting concepts

Power Automate / workflow automation

Git / GitHub / source control

Software testing / technical docs

Curiosity & problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / related field

Equivalent combination of education & experience

Tools

ConnectWise PSA

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Dynamics 365 Business Central

SmartConnect

Azure

Azure DevOps

Power Apps / Power Platform

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Communications Engineering Company (CEC) is hiring an entry-level software support developer to help build and improve applications, reports, and automations across our platform. You will learn directly from a senior developer through structured onboarding, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on projects.

You will contribute to resolving issues, supporting ConnectWise PSA and Dynamics platforms, and creating small tools using .NET, SQL, Power BI, and Power Automate.