[Remote] Software Development Engineer II

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. World Vision USA is a global Christian humanitarian organization seeking a Software Development Engineer II to serve in their Marketing Division. The role involves providing technical support and development for applications, ensuring a smooth user experience for donors, and collaborating with various teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Responsibilities

• Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions); incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within scope of role
• Participate in the project planning process with IT business analysts and team members
• May develop work plan timelines and manage workflows to meet project time frames
• Work with Applications Developer Team Lead and Sr. Applications Developer as well as ‘the operations team’ and architects to ensure the practical, smooth, effective retirement of application, which may include any data migration, planning of application de-coupling, and staging and phasing of work to ensure smooth, risk-free application retirement
• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members
• Identify technical requirements
• Create technical design specifications and assist in sizing technical requirements
• Code applications using a disciplined development process and in accord with the company and team's standard development process (SDLC)
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework
• Develop, execute, and document test plans
• Assist in the deployment of new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment
• Make modules production ready by moving them to libraries, completing forms, following procedures, completing version control documents, etc
• Provide ongoing maintenance of applications
• Participate in review sessions where patterns of development and break/fix metrics are reviewed as part of standard process for optimizing IT development processes
• Assist in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems
• May evaluate new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices
• Provide recommendations for the solutions
• Participate in defining and refining standards and procedures and help team to follow them
• Provide Level 1 and 2 production support
• Troubleshoot existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develop solutions
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms and provide recommendations for improving application performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications
• Follow team's documentation standards
• Review modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with application standards and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Work collaboratively with team members when assigned to work as a member of a team
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Two-year technical or junior college degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field or equivalent (two years) relevant work experience
• In addition to education or education equivalent, one to three years of programming experience required
• Requires working knowledge in at least one programming language
• Experience working on WordPress, PHP, Modern JavaScript (Modern JS)
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A for any employer
• WordPress
• PHP
• Modern JavaScript (Modern JS)
• React
• Next
• Node
• C#
• MySQL

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