Application Programmer

Location Lenexa Kansas Job type Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
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Full-Stack Application Development

We are looking for someone with a great work ethic and positive attitude. If you are reliable, creative, think outside the box, and have thirst for learning, please read on!

Our favorite employees do what they say when they say it will be done. They are reliable and don’t need to be micromanaged. We believe in a good work/life balance. A team player attitude is great! A healthy sense of humor is a bonus!

Job Types: Full-time or Internship. We would also consider someone who wishes to work parttime.

Compensation: $71,500.00 – $120,000.00 per year

Job Position Summary

We would like to hire a highly skilled software engineer who is proficient in both front and back-end programming (full-stack developer). This position will require the development, creation, and testing of web based and desktop software with limited supervision. This will include the creation and maintenance of any database integration.

This is a full-time, permanent job with awesome benefits. During your first month, you will mostly work in our Lenexa Kansas office. You may work from home some of the time after that period.

A minimum of 45 hours per week is required. After you are fully trained and able to work on your own, you can pick the days and hours that you come into the office between 7 am and 6 pm Monday through Saturday.

Job Duties

  • Fix bugs and look for better ways to do everything.
  • Design and create complex applications with limited supervision.
  • Create estimates and work breakdown structures on assigned development tasks.
  • Proficiently communicate the status and progress of assignments.
  • Develop and execute test plans for software acceptance and validation.
  • Responsible for maintaining the performance and integrity of system databases.
  • Design and implement DML, DLL, T-SQL scripts based on requirements.

Job Qualifications and Skills

Education

Preferred: Four-year computer science degree (or related degree) with three years of experience.

-OR-

Will Consider: Two-Year computer science degree (or related degree) with four years of experience.

Experience

At least 2 ā€“ 3 years of professional experience with C# development.

What Our Developers Do

We have a small team of engineers that build and maintain a complicated software package that includes a robust accounting system on the desktop with a field service management system in the cloud. We work in Visual Studio with C#, .Net, and SQL Server. Our third-party controls are mostly Telerik and Kendo. For reporting, we use Crystal Reports and Active Reports.

We meet every Monday for ninety minutes to plan out our week and get an idea of what everyone is doing. We typically spend a couple hours in the morning fixing bugs and the rest of the day adding features or making other improvements. We have a quick meeting each Thursday afternoon to see if any adjustments need to be made to our priorities. Our developers are encouraged to speak their minds and are very much part of the overall design process of our software products.

Job Skills Needed

  • C# Development within WPF and .NET frameworks.
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL Server ā€“ DML, DLL, and T-SQL
  • Agile methodologies; including SCRUM and Kanban.
  • Bonus points for Xamarin Forms and Telerik Controls
  • Optimistic personality and a desire to learn.
  • Curious, passionate, and driven to work hard and keep up with the latest technologies.
  • A great sense of humor would be nice around here, but it’s not required.

Great Benefits Package

Benefits include health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401K, paid personal days, one to three weeks of vacation per year, holidays, paid birthday, wellness plan, veterans’ day off with pay (if you are a veteran), professional HR management, and a fantastic work atmosphere. We add a new benefit each year.

About Aptora Corporation

Aptora is a stable 25+ year old software company. Aptora was voted one of the top places to work in Kansas City by the Small Business Journal. We are a great place to work for. We value our employees and consider them to be our greatest asset. We don’t hire people knowing we just plan to use them up and lay them off. We are not a work-for-hire.

Aptora develops, markets, packages and sells accounting and business management software to service and contracting companies in the United States, Canada and Australia. We have won numerous awards for product design. We sell everything we make. Please check out our website atĀ www.aptora.comĀ to learn more.

Phone:Ā No Calls Please. Email us. Immediate interviews through the internet.

This position is normallyĀ on-siteĀ in Lenexa, KS. Sorry, but we are not accepting remote or C2C and cannot sponsor work visas. You must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. Please note, we conduct background checks on all employees. Aptora is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.