JOB DESCRIPTION

NYC Department of Finance (DOF) is responsible for administering the tax revenue laws of the city fairly, efficiently, and transparently to instill public confidence and encourage compliance while providing exceptional customer service.
The Finance Information Technology (FIT) Division designs, builds, and supports all facets of DOF’s computer systems, including hardware, software, applications, infrastructure, telephone, and data security. FIT delivers and administers tax-related payment programs for the City of New York by providing the information technology solutions needed to achieve its mission of collecting revenue while ensuring an efficient and improved customer experience. FIT is also responsible for the systems and websites which enable citywide payments, land records, property assessment, parking adjudications, customer service, and the Sheriff’s public safety work
FIT is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Developer to join our team. The selected candidate will provide leadership for a dedicated development team, while also actively contributing to the overall development of high-quality software. Most of the time, the candidate will be dedicated to hands-on designing, coding, and reviewing, however, a portion must be reserved to cross-train other engineers and help grow their skills. By fostering a collaborative environment and removing obstacles, the selected candidate will help developers write and test code that aligns technical efforts with business goals before the changes are pushed to source control. The candidate will also be responsible for overseeing custom and low-code developers and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions.

The Senior Software Developer’s responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Leading the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade, highly integrated, complex full-stack web and mobile environment applications, leveraging your knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to develop scalable, repeatable, robust solutions.
• Leading the architectural design and development of complex custom-code and low-code applications, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with DOF’s business objectives. Ensure that applications have a strong emphasis on integration and fit in with DOF’s overall enterprise product strategy.
• Identify opportunities to optimize development processes, accelerate timelines, and enhance efficiency through the effective use of low-code platforms and automation. Manage availability, latency, and efficiency of the product by engineering reliability into the solution. Contribute to application performance analysis and system tuning.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
• Build automation to prevent problem recurrence; champion quality-first culture.
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and diagnose incidents using advanced tracing, alerting, and log analysis.
• Be an agent for change, at both the team and departmental level.

-Crosstrain software developers on the team-sharing best practices and providing technical guidance on how to become more proficient. Foster a culture of learning and growth. Perform application and code reviews, providing constructive feedback on quality, design and implementation that help ensure that applications meet high standards of performance and reliability.

• Share advanced/expert knowledge with others in the department, both on and off team; maintain a reputation as a key resource in those areas.
• Effectively articulates project nuances and complexities to City executives, Agency Heads, Assistant Agency Heads, City business partners, and other stakeholders while being responsive and sensitive to underlying politics.
• Leads teams in the execution of iterative workflows and the use of collaboration tools that focus on speed to market, return on investment and delivery of business value.
• Provides day-to-day oversight and leadership of multidisciplinary project teams including teams working on IT integration projects and consultants. Coordinates, tracks, and reports on project tasks and progress to management, stakeholders and relevant teams. Supports project deliverable readiness for service operations.
• Oversees, plans, manages and coordinates complex information technology projects from initiation to completion, including defining project scope, creating/updating project plans and work breakdown structures, scheduling project deliverables, goals and milestones, identifying and managing IT project risks, determining resource needs, obtaining signoff on project deliverables, etc.

Additional Information:
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position; or,
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1” above.

PREFERRED SKILLS

-10 + years of experience building and delivering enterprise-grade software applications in a high-volume or critical production service environment, with familiarity of production environments (application servers, web servers, databases). -Recent experience in a modern programming language such as Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XML, XSL, as well as demonstrated mastery of one or more low-code platforms like Appian, Mendix, Microsoft Power Platform or Salesforce, including their advanced and integration capabilities. -Hands-on experience with systems integration using APIs such as REST and SOAP, JDBC connections. -Possess a strong understanding of underlying technical concepts like APIs, databases, data exchange formats (e.g., JSON, XML), and expert proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Spring, JPA, JDBC, Hibernate, React, Gradle, and Git is crucial for complex solutions. -Ability to develop advanced automated workflows, custom plug-ins and configuring settings to meet requirements. -Possess a solid understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including design, development, testing, and deployment, as well as familiarity with DevOps practices like source control management and CI/CD pipelines. -Knowledge of administration and servers such as JBOSSWebSphereWebLogic etc. -Ability to leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write software in a cloud infrastructure environment, using tools such as: Python, Go, Java, CI/CD pipelines, RDBMS, No-SQL DBs, etc. -Strong verbal and written communication skills experience with customer interaction, requirements analysis, and presentations. -Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and designing application solutions using low-code platforms. -Familiarity with networking and security best practices in the cloud. -Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Machine Learning, Google Cloud, Application Integration, Database, Developer Tools, Management & Governance, and Elastic Containers is a plus but not mandatory.

• Leading the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade, highly integrated, complex full-stack web and mobile environment applications, leveraging your knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to develop scalable, repeatable, robust solutions.
• Leading the architectural design and development of complex custom-code and low-code applications, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with DOF’s business objectives. Ensure that applications have a strong emphasis on integration and fit in with DOF’s overall enterprise product strategy.
• Identify opportunities to optimize development processes, accelerate timelines, and enhance efficiency through the effective use of low-code platforms and automation. Manage availability, latency, and efficiency of the product by engineering reliability into the solution. Contribute to application performance analysis and system tuning.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
• Build automation to prevent problem recurrence; champion quality-first culture.
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and diagnose incidents using advanced tracing, alerting, and log analysis.
• Be an agent for change, at both the team and departmental level