About the role:
Blackbaud’s IT Software Development team builds and manages software and services critical to our company’s business operations. We are trusted business partners, first-class software engineers, and digital transformation leaders empowering Blackbaud to keep pace with a rapidly changing technology landscape.
We are looking for a dynamic, high-performing Senior Software Engineer to join our IT Software Engineering team. Our software engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams with other back end and front-end engineers, DevOps, product managers, and IT infrastructure teams to build innovative solutions.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the IT Software Engineering team, you will be developing both our Customer-facing web applications and back-end systems that power modern interactions between Blackbaud’s Customers and our IT systems. Your success in this area will have a direct impact on our customers’ experience working with Blackbaud, and consequently, their ability to succeed in their missions.
What you’ll be doing:
Design and build software systems using technologies like .NET Core, C#, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Azure cloud resources, and REST APIs
Leveraging AI to accelerate scale, speed, and address quality.
Develop integrations between core systems, including Salesforce, Workday, and Blackbaud’s Engineering System
Administer the API Documentation Libraries using 'Swagger / OpenAPI' (Swashbuckle)
Work with a Scrum team to groom, plan, and deliver work while guiding the technical design and implementation
Solve defects within our operational software baseline and ensure technical debt is identified, tracked, and planned as part of the Scrum process
Support existing structures and pipelines
Improve software quality through techniques like adherence to software standards, static analysis scanning, unit testing, logging, proactive alerting, and monitoring
Deliver documented results of improving the operating efficiency and security posture of our software development life cycle environment
Work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs and identify areas of opportunity
Participate in an on-call rotation
Explore emerging technologies and apply new learning to improve how we build systems through refactoring, modernizing technology, and automation
What we’ll want you to have:
5+ experience in Software Development
Fundamental understanding of the software development lifecycle
Understanding of secure coding practices based on OWASP standards
Experience with Microsoft C# / .NET
Experience building and consuming REST Web Services Experience working with code versioning, GIT preferred
Experience with developing applications using Angular
Exposure to use of AI Coding agents and developer tools strongly preferred
Understanding and know how to apply agile principles, practices, and patterns
Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex and technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Experience developing code that runs within a cloud environment (preferably Azure)
Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities
Ability to deliver work which meets all minimum standards of quality, security, and operability
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