The .NET Software Engineer is part of a divisional IT team based in Chicago, IL. The team develops enterprise caliber software applications on the Microsoft .Net platform. The team is led by managers with software development backgrounds and strives to use modern practices and technologies to develop software the right way. There is a dynamic team environment that encourages collaboration among developers to make the whole team better.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interacts with key business individuals to understand business issues and goals
• Directs, prepares, designs, codes, tests, debugs, and maintains complex computer programs
• Under general direction, formulates and defines system scope and objectives
• Works with users to support business applications, and investigate operational problems/system requirements
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
• Refines business requirements from which programs will be written
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs
• Responsible for completion of development projects
• Solves user inquiries that arise during day-to-day operation
• Regularly provides coaching, guidance and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers
• Develops business cases, requirements and performance metrics

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business
• 5 or more years of application development architecture experience on the Microsoft platform
• Prior experience serving as an IT liaison to business users for application requirements and end user support

• Hands on technical experience with:
  • C# and the .NET Framework 3.5 and beyond
  • Web development experience including ASP.Net, HTML, XML, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery
  • Web services (ASMX, WCF, Web API)
  • Relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server
  • SQL Server Reporting Services

Desired:

• Hands on technical experience with:

• Linq and Entity Framework
• Modern Javascript libraries (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Webforms
• MVC
• WPF
• Team Foundation Server

• Understanding of systems development and project delivery life cycle
• Experience with automated unit testing and test-assisted development
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience with automated build and deployment processes

Job Description:

• Maintain, support, and enhance existing web applications.
• Analyze, design, develop, and debug applications.
• Participate in technical design meetings and assist in definition of system architecture.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress.
• Diagram and document solutions when necessary.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with all associates and business contacts.
• Promote a strong sense of teamwork.
• Provide excellent customer service to users of company system software applications.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable work experience
• Minimum 5 years of web development experience; with a focus on e-commerce solutions preferred
• Strong server side development skills using C#, ASP.NET, MVC, and SQL Server
• Experience working in web environment such as IIS administration
• Experience with open source JavaScript libraries such as JQuery a plus
• Experience with the agile/scrum development framework a plus
• Ability to work efficiently and meet project deadlines with minimal supervision
• Ability to analyze business problems and provide accurate development estimates

Strong communication skills and experience working business stakeholders and web designers

Growing technology company near Millennium Park (Michigan and Randolph) is seeking a permanent full time SQL DBA to work onsite and make solid contributions for their IT team.

Duties:

• Monitoring operational performance and optimizing SQL in large database farm
• Working with developers on database design to ensure high-performance and scalability
• Refining the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model
• Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans
• Installing and testing new versions of the DBMS, Capacity Planning, and control access permission
• Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
• Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
• Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security

Education and Experience:

• Minimum 3+ years of SQL Database Administration experience
• Must possess strong DBA knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server configuration and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analytical skills – the ability to assist in resolving various systems issues for multiple integrated locations and systems.
• Ability to deploy, monitor, maintain, develop, upgrade, and support databases and database Servers.
• Local Candidates Only

We’re looking for a Senior .NET developer who is passionate about programming, enjoys working on small teams, and is ready to tackle coding from the database layer to the UI front-end (and everything in between).   If you write clean code, love what you do and want to work in a fun relaxed culture, we’d love to tell you more!

Position Duties:

• Develop software system design, programming & documentation based on business requirements
• Provide technical assistance and technical training to other departments
• Document & report status / progress of assigned tasks on a regular basis
• Responsible for ensuring adherence of all deliverables to appropriate standards & quality levels
• Maintain knowledge of best practices surrounding IT technology, processes & applications development / support
• Work effectively with other team members on multi-person projects, provide constructive evaluation of code & share knowledge / insight

Requirements:

• B.S. degree
• 5+ years of experience using web and .NET technologies
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong SQL, ASP.NET, C# or VB.NET, WCF, HTML, Javascript, and Web Services