Software Developer

Harris Computer; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris ERP seeks a Senior Software Developer to design and ship backend services, primarily in Java, while mentoring a small team across local and overseas developers. You’ll report to the VP of R&D and collaborate with product, QA, TechOps, and other teams to modernize our offerings and implement AI-enabled delivery.

The role emphasizes architecture, code quality, and operational health, with milestones after 6 and 12 months that demonstrate progress and impact on the platform.

Qualifications

• Design and ship production-grade backend services in Java or similar.
• Own REST API design and integration in production systems.
• Mentor other developers and review code to help growth.
• Work with distributed outsourcing teams and strong async communication.
• Hands-on use of AI coding tools as part of development workflow.
• Solid grounding in relational DB design and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies to enhance the Customer Support department, aligned with company objectives and customer needs.
• Collaborate with the VP of Operations to define KPIs and roadmaps to achieve targets.
• Design, build, and ship production code using modern Java frameworks and enterprise-grade practices.
• Own modernization end-to-end from design through rollout and testing.
• Provide day-to-day direction and mentorship to a team across time zones.
• Partner with the VP of R&D on staffing, performance feedback, and career growth conversations.
• Build async updates and documentation habits for effective distributed collaboration.
• Provide AI-enabled delivery and tooling adoption within the team.

Skills

Backend design

REST API design

Mentorship

Distributed teams

AI coding tools

SQL databases

Education

CS/SE degree

Tools

Quarkus

Jakarta EE

Hibernate

MapStruct

Lombok

Docker

SQL Server

DACPAC

React

Job description

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

• 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.