Overview

LSAC is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance law and justice by encouraging diverse, talented individuals to study law and by supporting their enrollment and learning journeys from prelaw through practice. LSAC provides products and services that support candidates and schools throughout the law school admission process, and innovative solutions to expand and diversify the range of prelaw students, enhance student outcomes in law school, and support legal professionals throughout their careers.

Summary of Position:

We are seeking a Full Stack Software engineer to join our team. You will work as part of an autonomous agile team to develop features and applications to meet the needs of your product area. We are looking for a candidate with deep understanding of engineering best practices and a strong agile mindset. In addition, this position will be responsible for operational maintenance, troubleshooting and support of applicable backend systems. As you progress in your position, you will have the opportunity to work with new and interesting technology.

This is a full-time position. Remote work arrangements will be considered.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The individual employed in this position will be required to:

• Collaborate with partners within the company to design, configure, maintain, and promote a variety of internally and externally facing software solutions for a wide range of users, including people with disabilities.
• Collaborate with analysts, software engineers, engineer leads, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.
• Build and maintain scalable applications.
• Deliver high quality code in a timely manner that meets or exceeds accessibility standards.
• Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize software.
• Collaborate across agile teams to ensure application reliability and coding to architectural standards.
• Contributes as part of the team to continuous code delivery with deployment tools and automated testing.
• Scale software to support dynamic teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Be a contributor of knowledge to the team by reviewing code, sharing experience, and listening.
• Connect with developers within your team to inspire and foster a continuous learning environment.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Ability to listen to stakeholders and form solutions.
• Proven ability as a servant leader.
• Experience with a variety of object-oriented languages.
• Experience with web and cross platform technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Git and code management methodologies.
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment and challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working.
• Experience with relational and unstructured data repositories.
• Knowledge of modern development practices and the development lifecycle with experience using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies.
• Values the success of the team over personal objectives.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as experience with MS Office Suite including MS Teams.
• Experience creating digital content and applications compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and ARIA standards
• Experience in the following disciplines is strongly desired:

• MS VB and C# .NET frameworks, including Web Forms and Windows Forms

• • JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, React JS, and Angular

• Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle

Required Experience and Education:

• B.A. or B.S. degree (preferred) or 5 years related experience.

Preferred Experience and Education:

• Experience with any of the following disciplines is a plus:
  • .NET Core, .NET Framework, RESTful API, Web API
  • Power BI
  • MS Azure (Service Fabric, DevOps, Cloud Services, etc.)
  • Cosmos DB
  • Selenium or comparable automated testing frameworks

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role does not have people management responsibilities.

Position Type:

The LSAC standard business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET. While these are the standard office hours for LSAC, as an exempt employee, the employee will be expected to work the hours necessary to satisfactorily complete their assignments in a responsible and professional manner.

Travel:

Little to no travel required for this role.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a remote and professional office environment. Whether remote or in-office, this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to write, hear, speak, and present materials.

Additional Information:

Please note that this job description may not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Job responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Except as otherwise provided by law, all terms of employment are subject on an at-will basis and can change at any time.

LSAC actively seeks to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce and in our pipeline of future leaders. We are committed to attract and retain candidates who have a passion for their work and encourage all qualified individuals, including minorities, women, LGBTQIA , and individuals with a disability, to apply. LSAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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