Senior Software Developer

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

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Job Description:

The Senior Software Developer role is accountable for the development and implementation of standards and processes around definition, development, test, analysis, and maintenance of software applications in support of the business. This includes processes and standards on writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications. The Senior Software Developer will also take part in the effort to research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the development life cycle.

This role will be Hybrid (3-days a week in office) at our Corporate Headquarters in Minneapolis, MN.
Responsibilities

Software Development: Identifies, analyzes, and fulfills requirements of all internal and external stakeholders for new or existing software applications. Identifies risk and recommendations, helps drive the software development schedule. Is accountable for well written code to enhance functionality and/or performance of software applications and for oversight of software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors and general debugging.

Project Team Work: Drives the definition of software development project plans, including scoping, estimates, and implementation. Is accountable for standards and reusable process development for all software development. Provides technical advice, instruction and training to software developers with less experience.

Issue Resolution: Drives highest level support for incoming incident tickets from end users to resolve application and software issues. Collaborates with peers, managers and customers to resolve problems with software products or company software systems. Is accountable for delivering solutions to problem areas.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Critical Competencies

Technical Expertise: Maintains technical knowledge and best practices with focus on researching and making recommendations for emerging and future technology trends. Serves as a technical mentor to lesser experienced team members. Solves business and technical problems by leveraging expertise and technology from across the organization. Able to work across a range of platforms and applications and see interconnections between organizational systems that others may miss.

Decision Making: Works well with teams and is able to make decisions in a timely manner. Able to balance data with intuition and experience when making decisions. Willing to become involved in and make decisions about issues in areas that are initially unfamiliar. Demonstrates a bias for initiating action on decisions and is seldom a bottleneck due to decision procrastination.

Innovation: Synthesizes information from multiple sources into a meaningful representation of how change and innovation will create improvement. Generates new ideas, approaches or solutions that can be introduced to existing processes or to new systems. Understands the importance of change management and is a role model for implementing change and innovations.

Communication: Establishes rapport and is straightforward and approachable. Listens carefully, asks pertinent questions, responds effectively and adapts personal style to suit the audience. Speaks, writes and presents in a clear and concise manner. Able to comprehensibly convey technical ideas to a non-technical audience. Understands the overall IT strategy and is able to communicate the vision to team members and business stakeholders. Maintains and grows diverse network of contacts and relationships over time.

Results Focus: Drives for results and defines how success will be measured. Adheres to clear standards and expectations for technical and project performance. Contingency plans to anticipate and work around barriers to task completion.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred, or a combination of equivalent education and experience

5-7 years of programming experience required. Extensive experience in all aspects of application development and project life cycles

Excellent understanding and proven experience of coding methods and best practices

Proven experience in object oriented programming and in multiple development technologies with proven ability to maintain software products written in different languages and platforms

5+ years development experience, with solid level experience in C#. .Net, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Entity Framework and ORM Libraries

Experience with responsive UI design tools such as Vue.js/jQuery/Bootstrap

Experience in Cloud native development in Azure, AWS or GCP is preferred.

Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017+ or Visual Studio Code

Proficient with SQL technologies

Strong understanding of API development

Experience in common development best practices, including code reviews, CI/CD, and version control (Git)

Database (relational and hierarchical) and operating systems experience

Experience with Test Driven Development

Deep experience using source code management system (Git preferred)

Proficiency with office productivity tools such as Microsoft Excel, Word and Visio

Preferred Qualifications:

Working knowledge of MS Azure DevOps

ASP.Net Core MVC web development

Working knowledge of Agile Scrum development methodology across multiple locations

Experience with RESTful / microservice architectures

Experience with Webpack

Experience working with DevOps teams

Experience working with eCommerce sites

The compensation range for this role is below.