Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

PSE's IT Application Solutions team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Senior Application Developer position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer to join our Enterprise Integration Services team. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing integration solutions while ensuring alignment with business goals and technology standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, system integration, and cloud technologies, with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement. Additionally, you’ll help shape the future of the team by mentoring junior members to drive excellence in engineering as a cohesive, efficient, and productive team unit. Your vision is our mission.

This is an excellent opportunity to play an integral role within PSE to help us better serve the environment, our customers and the communities in which they live. PSE provides an environment where all employees are valued, respected and provided with the opportunity to achieve maximum performance. We offer a comprehensive pay package that includes competitive compensation, annual goals-based incentive bonuses, comprehensive cafeteria-style benefits, 401(K), and a company paid retirement pension plan and an employee assistance and wellness program. Candidates requiring relocation and sponsorship will also be considered. Gain the energy to do great things through a career with Puget Sound Energy!

Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety. Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

Job Responsibilities

Ensures that end-to-end custom software applications are designed, developed, tested, and released with highly-scalability and maintainability principles.
Ensures delivery of high-quality software through clean coding practices, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, and code reviews.
Enables optimum team efficiency by thinking across team responsibilities to identify which policies/processes provide delivery optimization and which do not.
Provides leadership, technical direction, and architectural input into product vision and roadmap development.
Continuously builds technical knowledge and improves our ability to deliver quality solutions, evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.
Influences technology maturity and innovation across departments and upwards in the department.
Provides guidance to business and functional units in developing tests and training plans and materials.
Interprets internal/external business challenges and with assistance from architects and other principal level engineers, recommends integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem.
Works effectively with teams and stakeholders in a remote hybrid working environment.
Participate in Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, and contribute to continuous improvement within the team.
An analytical approach to problem-solving, coupled with the ability to conceptualize systems.
Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms. Excellent technical writing and system documentation skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
5+ years IT experience, including several years of systems development experience in the design and development of department-wide or enterprise-wide applications.
Detailed understanding and 5+ years programming languages (specialized technical requirements as shown in attachment) and strong knowledge of office applications (e.g. Microsoft Office).
Possesses full technical knowledge of phases of software development life cycle.
Experience with at least two full life cycle implementations of a new application or purchased application.
Extensive knowledge of multiple languages, i.e (specialized technical requirements as shown in attachment) environment, active business processes, business areas, as well as industry.
Knowledge of systems and/or business analysis design concepts. Demonstrated proficiency in the applied use of systems and process analysis tools. Full system life cycle experience, including development lifecycle methodologies.
Demonstrated understanding of Structured Query Language (SQL).
Ability to facilitate interactive design and functional specification sessions.
Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms. Excellent technical writing and system documentation skills.
Strong analytical problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
Demonstrated project management skills for moderate sized projects.
Must be a “team player” able to work with management in developing and implementing new processes and enabling systems. Able to work with end user groups to define application needs and identify feasible solutions.
Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to motivate others and a customer-focused service attitude.
Good organizational skills, with the ability to meet objectives and effectively multi-task.
Ability to work with multiple levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical.

Desired Qualifications

5+ years of backend engineering experience in C#.Net, Web API and ASP.Net, with a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.
Proficiency in modern development frameworks and practical implementation of high-performance, large-scale distributed storage systems, emphasizing enterprise-level product quality using AWS services such as S3, SQS, SNS, and Event Bridge.
Experience with AWS serverless technologies, such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions.
Strong experience with NoSQL database design and development such as DynamoDB, Astra DB and other similar databases.
Experience of using in-memory databases like Redis, Memcached.
Demonstrated knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and ReactJS.
Experience with Terraform or similar tools, with ability to design and implement infrastructure as code for cloud-based systems.
Experience with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automation.
Experience with Dynatrace, Splunk or similar monitoring solutions.
Understanding of Agile principles and experience working in an Agile environment.
AWS Certification is a plus!

At PSE we value and respect our employees and provide them opportunities to excel. We offer a competitive compensation and rewards package.

The pay range for this position is $99,600.00 - $175,200.00, and this position is eligible for annual goals based incentive bonuses.

PSE offers a suite of benefits to our employees. Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance. There are additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare, and an Employee assistance program (EAP). For long term savings, PSE offers a 401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan. Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year. Detailed benefit overviews can be found on our Career page - Why Work For Us (pse.com).

Families and businesses depend on PSE to provide the energy they need to pursue their dreams. Our steadfast commitment to serving Washington communities with safe, dependable and efficient energy started in 1873. Today we're building the Northwest's energy future through efforts like our award winning energy efficiency programs and our leadership in renewable energy.

Puget Sound Energy is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status or presence of a disability that with or without reasonable accommodation does not prevent performance of the essential functions of the job, or any other category prohibited by local, state or federal law.

Should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources Staffing department at jobs@pse.com or 425-462-3017.

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