Software Developer - Public Sector Modernization

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Charlotte (NC)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance Plan

PTO

Short Term & Long-Term Disability

Internet & Phone Allowance

Wellness Resources (EAP)

Pet Insurance

Work-Life balance

Flexible Hours

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Job summary

JW Affinity IT seeks an experienced Software Developer to design, enhance, integrate, and support applications used by a local municipality. This role will modernize digital services, automate internal processes, and improve reliability for employees, residents, and municipal operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong development experience with the ability to translate business requirements into secure, maintainable solutions across legacy and modern technologies in a public-sector

Qualifications

5–7 years of professional software development experience.
Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL).
Knowledge of SQL, data modeling, authentication, authorization, error handling, and logging.
Experience with Git or other source-control platforms.
Understanding of SDLC, testing, deployment, and change management.
Ability to communicate with nontechnical stakeholders and translate operational needs into technical requirements.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance web-based and enterprise applications.
Translate business requirements into secure, scalable solutions.
Develop integrations between municipal applications, databases, cloud platforms, vendor systems, and third-party services.
Build and maintain APIs, automated workflows, data exchanges, reports, and system interfaces.
Support modernization of legacy applications and manual business processes.
Write clean, documented, reusable, and testable code using approved development standards.
Troubleshoot application defects, performance issues, failed integrations, and production incidents.
Perform code reviews and participate in application architecture and design discussions.
Develop unit, integration, regression, and automated tests.
Apply secure coding practices and remediate application vulnerabilities.
Maintain source code, version history, release documentation, technical specifications, and deployment instructions.
Support development, testing, staging, and production environments.
Collaborate with business analysts, infrastructure personnel, cybersecurity teams, database administrators, vendors, and department stakeholders.
Assist with data conversion, application migration, system implementation, and user-acceptance testing.
Provide technical support for production applications and participate in scheduled deployments or after-hours maintenance when required.