Software Engineer

Overview

Why Opus?

At Opus, integrity isn't just a principle. It's how we do business. As an independently owned company operating in seven countries, we’ve built our success by staying true to our values: questioning everything, embracing change, building not buying, winning together, and doing the right thing. Our employees see the difference - we’re a certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, the USA, Ireland, and the Philippines. If you share our beliefs and want to be part of a team that values innovation, accountability, and doing the job right, we’d love to connect.

Responsibilities:

• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Execute full lifecycle software development
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Tailor and deploy software tools, processes and metrics
• Serve as a subject matter expert
• Comply with project plans and industry standards
• Provide Helpdesk Support as needed, including management of Helpdesk system

Duties:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtain and license software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years experience in full lifecycle software development
• BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering or proven working experience in software engineering
• Hands on experience in designing interactive applications
• Ability to develop software in .Net, PHP, Java or other selected languages
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework
• Experience in developing desktop applications using .Net (C# or VB) framework
• Ability to document requirements and specifications
• Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes