0000001424.SOFTWARE ENGINEER III.INFO TECH - APPLICATIONS
Dallas County17 hours ago
Dallas, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and modernize complex scalable software features, systems, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
- Serve as a technical lead by contributing to architecture, technical designs, delivery planning, dependency coordination, and roadmap discussions.
- Lead sprint-level planning, execution, retrospectives, release readiness, and cross-team coordination.
- Conduct advanced code reviews and establish software quality, coding, test coverage, and maintainability standards.
- Mentor, coach, onboard, and support junior and mid-level software engineers.
- Develop and maintain automated testing and CI/CD pipelines and support deployment and infrastructure automation.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, reliability, and production stability.
- Resolve high-priority bugs, incidents, performance bottlenecks, system degradations, and integration issues.
- Collaborate with product, UX, QA, operations, infrastructure, DevOps, security, database, vendors, and third-party partners.
- Ensure solutions follow accessibility, cybersecurity, compliance, platform, and architectural standards.
- Create system diagrams, technical documentation, workflow and API documentation, reports, demonstrations, and release plans.
- Support end-user training, rollout planning, adoption monitoring, governance activities, and stakeholder communication.
Requirements
- Education and experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- Five years of related professional software development experience.
- Strong system-level thinking, debugging, architecture, design, leadership, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to mentor and guide junior software engineers and deliver high-quality, maintainable, user-friendly solutions.
- Full-stack development experience using modern frameworks such as React, .NET, Node.js, and Python.
- Programming experience with TypeScript, Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, or equivalent languages.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, RESTful API development, database design, enterprise application development, and system integration.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies, software development lifecycle practices, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture, monitoring, and cloud-native applications.
- Skill in automating deployment pipelines, managing infrastructure, and performing debugging and performance tuning.
- Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, AWS Developer Associate, similar cloud certification, or DevOps Foundation Certification.
- Valid Texas driver’s license, good driving record, and ability to provide a 10-year driving history.
- Ability to pass and maintain eligibility for required national fingerprint-based records checks for access to criminal justice databases.
Benefits
- Occasional travel to County sites and industry conferences is required.
- The role operates in a fast-paced, evolving technology environment.
- The position may require access to criminal justice databases and associated ongoing records-check compliance.
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About Dallas County
Dallas County is the county government for the Dallas, Texas area, delivering public services to more than two million residents across 30 municipalities. Its departments run public and mental health programs, courts and juvenile justice, property recording, and the issuance of marriage, vehicle, and other licenses, funded by county tax revenues and fees. Founded in 1846 and headquartered in Dallas, it is the second most populous county in Texas.