Senior Developer

Company: Nexant Inc.
Location: Madison
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

Madison, Wisconsin, United States Full time 14-15 Nexant touches the customer experience from multiple perspectives as a globally recognized software, consulting, and services leader. We work to solve problems and help utilities, energy enterprises, and government agencies worldwide. Founded in 2000, Nexant provides dynamic solutions to improve customer engagement, boost operational efficiency, reduce costs for customers and utilities, and save resources.

• Every day, we partner with our customers to reimagine the world we live in and how we can work together to drive a more productive and sustainable energy future.
• We develop innovative software, provide consulting and energy services, and deliver award-winning outcomes to utilities, energy enterprises, and government partners. We strive to provide a digital customer experience that increases productivity and leads the way to a better tomorrow. Nexant is currently seeking highly skilled developers experienced with building complex business applications using the Laravel, Vue and the Tailwind CSS frameworks for our Utility Services Business Unit. This full-time position will be working with our team in Madison, WI, ideally within the office or remote. This person will be responsible for supporting the development of software tools used to facilitate and enable the delivery of energy efficiency programs. This position will work on a wide range of software tools to fundamentally change how utilities deliver energy efficiency programs to their customers. Requirements
  • Working within an agile and TDD process to build both the front and back ends of the services and software that our team provides to aid in energy efficiency programs.
  • Maintain quality control of all deliverable products, demonstrating excellence and objectivity while maintaining both budgets and schedules defined by others which include
    • Passionate about writing clean and maintainable code with good test coverage, while balancing sticking with what works and exploring new ways of doing things
    • Implementation of new features in collaboration with other teams within Nexant
    • Optimization of existing code for performance, maintainability, extensibility and flexibility
    • Consideration about the developer's experience in code written
    • Document your development process and features
    • Provide ongoing support, feedback, and collaboration for existing software applications by serving as a technical contact and lead for internal questions and customer questions.
    • Mentor and assist team members with development, testing and implementation of features and functionality through common software development processes such as:
      • Code review of colleague's work
      • Stand up meetings
      • Technical requirement gathering
      • Pair Programming
      • Team training meetings to encourage continued growth for everyone
      • Other duties as assigned. Qualifications
        • Hands-on software development experience in designing and developing high performance, reliable and scalable production systems
        • 4-5+ years of experience with working professionally with PHP and OOP
        • 4-5+ years of experience with MySQL, Access, or other relational databases
        • 3+ years of experience working with Laravel or Symfony
        • 2+ years of working with Vue or React
        • Experience with test driven development
        • Experience with server administration and AWS is a plus
        • Experience with Node/Deno JS is a plus
        • Familiar with developing RESTful webservices and ORM concepts
        • Experience tuning applications for performance and scalability
        • OAuth and JWT Tokens experience is a plus
        • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
        • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in the English language
        • Self motivated and self-disciplined with getting things done
        • Practical Knowledge of the Agile Software Development Life cycle and working with tools such as Git and Jira
        • Knowledge of Utility Industry and related software systems is ideal
        • B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or related experience Salary and Benefits (U.S.) Nexant offers competitive salaries based on candidate's qualifications. Nexant also offers three weeks paid vacation per year, eleven paid holidays per year, a 401(k) plan with employee matching funds and an overall comprehensive benefits package. About Nexant Every day, Nexant employees partner with customers to reimagine the world we live in and create a more sustainable energy future. Nexant is a premier provider of technology enabled solutions to the Utility and Energy Industry focused on the next generation intelligent grid, distributed energy resources, and the digital customer experience. Operating from 20 offices around the world, the company's team of industry professionals has completed more than 5,000 engagements in over 70 countries. Nexant's clients include over 200 utility and software services customers. We work with over 300 chemical and petroleum majors, financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies. Find out more at www.nexant.com. Nexant supports clients through the following business units:
          • Utility Software and Services: We deliver software-enabled strategy, consulting, and implementation services. Software has developed and commercialized a number of industry-leading software platforms and applications including iEnergy--, Grid360---, and iHedge--. Utility Services works with clients to drive customer energy savings; ensure cost-effective program design, implementation, management, and evaluation; and promote customer engagement.
          • Energy & Chemicals Advisory: We offer consulting services, subscriptions, and training. E&CA provides strategic planning, project development, competitor analysis, and market and price forecasting.
            Diversity & Sustainability at Nexant
            At Nexant, diversity, equality, and inclusion matter. We have made a firm commitment to address diversity in every aspect of our business operations. We recognize that to be successful, it is vital to celebrate our differences, provide fair opportunity, and learn from one another. The management of energy, water and other vital resources is in a pivotal moment in history. We believe we have an opportunity to empower sustainable activities as a business and as individuals. This belief is infused in our relationships with employees, clients, our supply chain, and the environment. We are proud of our sustainability achievements as a company and how our business aligns with the goal of a resourceful, responsible, and sustainable world. Nexant has been recording, reporting, and offsetting our North American office carbon emissions with The Climate Registry since 2008. Nexant is a member of EUISSCA, an alliance of US electric utilities and their suppliers that was formed to promote a robust and sustainable electric utility industry supply chain. Nexant collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you are a European Job Applicant see the privacy notice for further details. Nexant does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

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